SPACE

What if two alien civilisations were close enough to contact one another?

Sun has the potential to release solar flares 1,000 times greater than ever recorded.

Astronomers detect Fast Radio Burst six billion light years away with 'tantalising extra element'.

How are black holes created? Latest ESA mission aims to find out.

Astronauts aboard ISS to receive Microsoft HoloLenses as part of Nasa's latest resupply mission.

We may never be able to build an Alcubierre warp drive, but that should not demoralise us.

The Lisa Pathfinder to take off next week will look for ripples in space.

Scientists observe black hole swallowing a star and ejecting a flare of matter almost at the speed of light.

Nasa's Spitzer Space Telescope has given the space agency a different perspective.

Jeff Bezos has beaten Elon Musk's SpaceX to launching and landing a rocket safely so it can be used again

Buzz Aldrin reveals John F Kennedy's ambitious plan to go to Mars in the 1960s.

Scientists hope to fully automate early-warning system to monitor the Sun's coronal magnetic fields in real time.

Phobos will likely fall apart in between 20 and 40 million years to form a ring around Mars.

Nasa is working on a network of space-based sensors called FireSat to detect fires worldwide 24/7.

The tools include the new experimental Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2), which was launched in 2014.

Why haven't we contacted aliens yet?

Which exoplanets are similar enough to the Earth that they could actually be habitable?

Nasa wants MIT Csail and Northeastern University to prep Valkyrie to carry out autonomous experiments on Mars.

Country plans solar and moon missions before 2020, besides considering one to Venus.

Lindgren Tweets a wide array of images of views from all over the world

Cloudy skies could obstruct the annual display.

Leonid meteor shower, from comet Tempel-Tuttle, will peak around 18 November 2015.

Dark matter played a crucial role in allowing our existence," says Professor Lisa Randall.

IBTimes UK looks at psychedelic space images released by Nasa using false colour.

MIT scientist Thomas Levenson discusses new book about the planet Vulcan.

Kjell Lindgren played Amazing Grace as a tribute to a colleague who died in October.

Pluto's distinct regions have subtle colour differences, scientists have shown in a psychedelic image.

A piece of space debris will hurtle towards Earth on 13 November

V774104 is less than half the size of Pluto, but about three times more distant.