SPACE

Contact was lost with Philae, the first spacecraft to land on a comet, after it ran out of power.

The element carbon is essential to the formation of life as we know it.

Chemical engineer working on a similar space propulsion tech to EmDrive wants to demonstrate it in space.

A predictable wind pattern changed in a manner not seen in more than 60 years of record-keeping.

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket explosion has put lsraeli satellite operator Spacecom in dire straits.

The eclipse occurs when the Moon is at a point in its orbit, farther away from Earth.

Young star EPIC 204278916 may help (in part) explain unusual behaviour of 'the most mysterious star in the galaxy'.

The 4km high cryovolcano was identified using images from Dawn spacecraft.

IBTimes UK explains the controversial space propulsion invention setting the global scientific community alight.

It might not be aliens, but mystery signal highlights how little we currently understand.

Fossil stromatolites exposed by melting snow patch pre-date previous oldest by 220 million years.

SES will reuse the Falcon 9 in order to launch a geostationary satellite on the world's first reusable rocket.

The cluster is the most distant ever to be detected and formed two-and-a-half billion years after the Big Bang.

Astronomers hunting the hypothetical Planet Nine say they are 80% sure it exists.

On 1 September, an annular eclipse will travel over several African countries.

After a primary impact on the Moon, ejected material stays in orbit and can land again on its surface.

The object, which lies 12,000 light years from Earth, has perplexed astronomers for years

Dr José Rodal says the paper has been accepted by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

A Russian telescope has observed "a strong signal" from the star, HD164595, in the Hercules constellation.

The conditions replicated as closely as possible a trip to the Red planet.

Dark matter is an invisible and unidentified form of matter, which accounts for around 27% of the universe's total mass.

Slooh is to make a live broadcast to enable people to take a look at star Proxima Centauri.

There may be 40 billion Earth-sized rocky planets in our universe

If the mission is successful, China will become the second country to land a rover on planet after the US.

Scientists discovered over 17,000 kms of river channels in Mars' Arabia Terra by analysing Nasa's high resolution images.

Proxima b is the closest exoplanet ever discovered, so near, in fact, that interstellar spacecraft could potentially reach it before end of the century

New techniques have allowed geologists to better understand the Earth's atmospheric history

Nasa lost contact with the spacecraft in 2014 just as it was about to commence orbiting the other side of the sun.

New docking bay could be used once Boeing and SpaceX programs are operating.