SPACE

Lunar volcanic activity is not as old as previously believed and could be a more recent one, says a new study.

Using data from Hubble space telescope team of astronomers maps extreme climate of distant exoplanet.

The Register has been working with its readers to build a rocket-powered spaceplane for four years

Astronomers find black hole consuming gas 10 times faster than thought possible.

Air & Space Evidence set up to solve disputes and fight crime with space imagery.

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Chance of meeting thousands of extra-terrestrial civilisations extremely low, expert says.

Total lunar eclipse to coincide with rising sun in phenomenon called selenelion.

Blood Moon 2014 live stream: watch the second lunar eclipse of 2014 online

The best apps to bring out the budding astronomer in you.

This week is World Space Week, so here are some unusual facts about our solar system

Astronomer says if people want to call Pluto the ninth planet, they can.

US government says nuclear weapons are for "potential use in planetary defence" against asteroids.

Reuters' photographer Yannis Behrakis travelled to Balsfjord in Norway for the Aurora Borealis.

MIT scientists say volcanic plume most likely created moon's biggest basin.

Tiny experimental satellites are increasing in number in low earth orbits with operators not de-orbiting them as per guidelines.

Cassini spacecraft monitoring mysterious feature in sea on Saturn's moon Titan.

Former Nasa astronaut says dependence on Russia for space technology is "humiliating".

Physicist Stephen Hawking says that understanding science can prove that God does not exist.

Four fireballs were seen in the sky over the US east coast.

Scientists have succeeded in stringing the world's smallest diamonds into super-strong nanothreads

Organic molecule found in interstellar space offers insight into how life began

People with over-active imaginations have spotted all sorts of things on the Red Planet.

China eyes the Red Planet following the success of its Jade Rabbit moon mission

Nasa rover photographs strangely shaped objects on surface of Mars.

Pioneering study finds original source of Earth's water was ice formed in interstellar space.

Nasa has produced a poster spoofing The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy.

Made In Space is testing moon dust as a 3D printing ingredient

HAT P-11b, 729 trillion miles away, has been discovered to have water vapour in its atmosphere.