SPACE

Recently discovered Babylonian tablet served as key to show how they tracked Jupiter 2,000 years ago.

In 1986, NASA's Space Challenger launched from the Kennedy Space Center, exploding 73 seconds later due to technical malfunctions

Nasa to host Day of Remembrance in tribute to crews of Apollo 1 and space shuttles Challenger and Columbia.

Countries will work together to put a lander on the red planet.

Peake is spending six months in space as part of his Principia mission.

Nasa may exclude those who wake up early from Mars as their body clock is too weak for 37 extra minutes a day.

Study details how we can finally understand what caused the Big Bang Theory – rapid expansion, or contraction.

New system is almost three times larger than previously known largest distance between planet and host star.

Study shows energy could be harnessed on planets circling black holes due to extreme temperature differences.

The full Wolf moon – or January's full moon – will be visible on 12 January.

Gaian Bottleneck theory says there are slim chances of life on other planets as they did not evolve in time.

Scott Kelly has just completed 300 days of living in space as part of a year-long mission.

Peake is spending six months in space as part of his Principia mission.

Violations in time reversal symmetry show spacetime continuum may not always have moved in one direction.

Astronomers at California Institute of Technology believe huge 'dark planet' exists way beyond Pluto.

From January 20, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn are set to be visibly aligned before sunrise.

The International Space Station has aboard its own espresso machine for that caffeine fix.

A gas cloud has been found that could contain an intermediate black hole, possibly the first ever discovered.

SpaceX founder posted spectacular footage of failed rocket landing to Instragram.

The first flower of the outer world is an orange zinnia, which blossomed aboard the International Space Station.

New mystery surrounds dimming of star KIC 8462852: Could it really be linked to alien megastructures?

Back to drawing board for SpaceX as Falcon 9 damaged while attempting landing on floating base.

A nuclear blast would cause an asteroid to lose mass and change its direction of travel

Peake was conducting repairs with colleague Col Tim Kopra outside the International Space Station.

Fellow astronaut Tim Kopra reports leak in spacesuit helmet prompting early end to walk.

Physicists say in special circumstances one qubit could be retrieved from a black hole.

Ex-army major Peake became first Brit to carry out a spacewalk when he left the ISS on 15 January.

Physicists propose new theory that says there were periods of inflation after the Big Bang.

ASASSN-15lh is two times brighter than supernova record holder comes from object just 10 miles across.