SPACE

SpaceX said it plans to launch its Falcon 9 rockets every two to three weeks.

NASA scientists say that a greenhouse gas effect from carbon dioxide couldn't have warmed Mars enough to melt its ice.

Helium 3 from the Moon could lead to fusion energy, but who gets to profit from it?

Preliminary results show long-duration space travel has several major effects on the human body.

The Silicon Valley startup is the first company given permission to travel beyond the Earth's orbit.

Northwest Africa 7635 was discovered in 2012 and is one of 12 ejected from Mars following a major impact.

Two billion pixel image shows cosmic clouds of gas and dust in constellation of Scorpius.

Mass extinctions are highly unlikely, but a reversal could cause trouble for our electronic infrastructure.

The Cassini mission will come to a halt this year but it has already greatly improved scientists' knowledge of the sixth planet from the Sun.

'Dipole repeller' appears to be exerting a force on our Local Group of gravities.

International team of researchers carry out observational tests of holographic cosmology.

The Apollo 1 mission was slated to be NASA's first manned mission to the moon.

Around 3.7 million Americans believe they have experienced alien abduction.

Hubble constant, measured to 3.8% accuracy, indicates "we are missing something fundamental".

Plans for second mission announced at unveiling of the Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft at the Science Museum.

Years of controversy surround Lake Cheko and arguments it was formed by 1908 Tunguska event.

The 45ft asteroid travelling at 16,600mph will pass earth at a distance of 162,252 miles.

Astronomer Stephen Kane analyses a potentially habitable planet just 14 light years away.

In seven billion years Earth will be destroyed by the Sun - but plenty of things could cause extinctions before that.

BAE Systems is using energy in the atmosphere to create on-demand deflector shields and spy lenses.

The huge bright, hot structure was found in the upper atmosphere by the Jaxa Akatsuki spacecraft.

This was astronauts Shane Kimbrough's fourth and Thomas Pesquet's first spacewalk.

Astronomers say asteroid 2017 AG13 had similar destructive potential as Chelyabinsk strike in 2013.

Very Large Telescope will be used to look at the star system and consider the best targets for exploration.

Study indicates a giant collision between Earth and the Mars-sized protoplanet Theia never happened.

8 January is also the 300th anniversary of the death of physicist Galileo Galilei.

There's just a one in a million chance of predicting an explosion – and US scientists have done just that.

Calculations indicate Rydberg atoms will be disturbed in a significant way even by low-mass particles

X-rays and data from the Hubble Telescope show the densest cluster of black holes ever observed.