SPACE

The spacecraft that will transport Tim Peake to the International Space Station is now on its launch pad.

Tim Peake has revealed the soundtrack of his six-month stay on the International Space Station.

The truth is out there, but should we be looking for it?

The Geminids meteor shower returns this weekend. Find out the best places to view the shower and what to expect.

John W Traphagan believes the discovery of alien life would not have much impact on humanity.

Leading cosmologist says dark matter could have caused dinosaur-killing comet to hit Earth.

Astronomers from Seti International do not find laser pulses coming from KIC 8462852.

Scientists make detailed observations from the surface of Ceres to work out what the bright spots are.

Physicists working at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory find no evidence universe is a hologram.

Watch Comet Catalina on its way back past Earth after close encounter with the Sun.

Long periods in space is causing pressure in astronauts' skulls, damaging their brain.

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.