SPACE

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

Hannah Osborne Jan 28, 2015

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

Mark Piggott Jan 27, 2015

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

Mary-Ann Russon Jan 27, 2015

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

Hannah Osborne Jan 27, 2015

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).

Adam Justice Jan 27, 2015

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

Jayalakshmi K Jan 27, 2015

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

Hannah Osborne Jan 26, 2015

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

Tom Porter Jan 25, 2015

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

Mark Piggott Jan 24, 2015

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

Jayalakshmi K Jan 24, 2015

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

Jayalakshmi K Jan 23, 2015

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

Mary-Ann Russon Jan 22, 2015

Astrophysicist claims our galaxy could be a galactic transport system.

Hannah Osborne Jan 21, 2015

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

Jayalakshmi K Jan 21, 2015

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

David Sim Jan 21, 2015

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

Arjun Varma Jan 21, 2015

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

Jayalakshmi K Jan 20, 2015

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

Lydia Smith Jan 20, 2015

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

Hannah Osborne Jan 19, 2015

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

Jayalakshmi K Jan 19, 2015

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

Jayalakshmi K Jan 18, 2015

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

Jayalakshmi K Jan 18, 2015

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

Dominic Gover Jan 17, 2015

Check out photos of alleged UFO near international space station

Arjun Varma Jan 17, 2015

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

Hannah Osborne Jan 16, 2015

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

Ben Skipper Jan 16, 2015

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

Jayalakshmi K Jan 16, 2015

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

Hannah Osborne Jan 15, 2015

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

Mary-Ann Russon Jan 15, 2015