SPACE

Richard Corfield looks at current plans to make money from the moon's resources.

Astrophysicists are not sure what caused the gas to be ejected so early in galaxy formation.

Proof of the waves seen in polarised light has now been shown to rise from dust in space.

SMAP will measure the 2in deep soil which holds less than 1% of Earth's water

Climate cycles on Mars are an ongoing process thanks to its wobbly rotation axis.

Unlike most prevailing theories, the new proposal suggests dark matter is made of light particles that interact strongly with ordinary matter.

Composite rocks made of different types melded together like Black Beauty is what the Martian crust is made of.

Images from ESA's spacecraft orbiting comet shows mysterious aspects of frozen ancient body.

ESA's video shows multiple lightning strikes in Romania as seen on the International Space Station.

Computer simulation of such an event has been offered as an explanation for the vastly differing hemispheres of Mars.

Comet Lovejoy, C/2014 Q2, discovered in 2014, will make its closest approach to the sun on 30 January.

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