SPACE

ESO's Very Large Telescope captures 'gaping mouth of a gigantic celestial creature'.

900m-wide asteroid 2004 BL86 missed earth by 'only' 750,000 miles last night

University of Colorado Boulder researchers are developing the orbiting Aragoscope for Nasa.

Five Earth-sized planets discovered orbiting 11.2 billion year old star Kepler-444.

The US space programme should save more than $12m (£7.95m) a seat flying astronauts to and from the International Space Station on commercial space taxis rather than aboard Russian capsules, the NASA programme manager said on Monday (January 26).

The ring system contains 30 rings with each spanning millions of kilometres in diameter.

Mutual UFO Network launches money-raising campaign to fund global database.

The probe has travelled three billion miles, and will begin sending back images of dwarf planet on Sunday.

Comet Lovejoy is off to outer space but will be back in about 10015

The data has laid bare detailed information about the two-three km wide comet 67P.

Silica crystals withstand high temperatures and pressures indicating rocky planets have deep oceans of molten rock.

Nasa and Microsoft developing OnSight - software that lets scientists work remotely using Curiosity Rover.

Astrophysicist claims our galaxy could be a galactic transport system.

Lower than expected levels of plutonium in interstellar dust from ocean floor calls for new supernova theory.

In his State of the Union speech, Obama advised astronaut Scott Kelly to Instagram everything.

UFO enthusiast posts 130,000 pages of government's UFO records online

Dawn currently speeding at around 725 kph for its scheduled capture into Ceres orbit in March.

January New Moon, first supermoon or perigee-syzygy of 2015, will occur on 20 January

Astronomers observe bright burst of radio waves from unknown source live for first time.

How cold clumps of gas are thrown at high speeds seen by observations of a distant quasar.

Rocks dating to four billion years ago show atmosphere was conducive to microbial life.

One of the planets is at the right distance for temperatures that can sustain liquid water and hence, life.

Elon Musk's recyclable rocket had been to International Space Station (ISS) to deliver supplies

Check out photos of alleged UFO near international space station

The Beagle 2 probe has been found on Mars 12 years after it went missing.

New Horizons probe awakes to complete its mission to explore the former planet.

Calculations of orbits of trans-Neptune objects suggest presence of dwarf planets in Kuiper Belt.

Nasa's New Horizons will begin studying Pluto before closest approach in July.

Asteroid 2004 BL86 will pass Earth by a range of 745,000 miles on 26 January.