SPACE

SpaceIL taking part in Google-sponsored Lunar X Prize, which challenges private companies to send a spaceship to the moon by 2015.

Space IL team talk about their plan to land an Israeli spaceship on the moon.

Leicester and Arizona scientists uncover new theories for pollution of collapsed stars.

Nasa's Earth Observatory releases stunning images of lightning strike over Saudi Arabia and Kuwait captured using the Firestation instrument.

Best photos of the day: 26 March 2014.

Nasa reveals future Z-2 spacesuit with new technological tweaks.

New expedition to the International Space Station to launch from Kazakhstan tonight.

Astronomers believe spacecraft could help in quest to find life on exoplanets.

Astronomer creates 'Taste the Stars' menu with chefs at the Four Seasons in Guanacaste.

Nasa's Spitzer Space telescope has provided new details of the Milky Way's structure and contents.

Zebra stripe pattern found in one of two radiation belts around Earth.

Military planes search Indian Ocean for two large objects spotted in satellite images.

Earth dodged 'huge magnetic bullet' by just nine days following coronal mass ejections.

British physicist wins bet with Prof Neil Turok over discovery of gravitational waves

Mixing inside stars causes them to expand, contract, eject and explode, according to 3-D model by W. David Arnett.

Nasa scientists believed to have recorded waves rippling on Titan, Saturn's largest moon.

Look at the best photos of the day: 18 March 2014.

Scientists explain cosmic inflation discovery made by Harvard Smithsonian astrophysicists.

Scientists provide evidence supporting Big Bang Theory of an ever-expanding universe.

Extremely rare space event 'asteroid occultation' to take place above New York.

European Space Agency warns that increased amount of litter orbiting Earth could make space inaccessible.

NASA searches for plane using satellites and International Space Station's ISERV camera.

William R. Pogue was the pilot of a record-setting American mission in space, who died on 3rd March 2014.

Astronomers have found the largest yellow star ever discovered.

Telescopes at the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array reveals stars in Orion Nebula blast away new planets.

Nasa has released a gallery of space images to welcome the premiere of Neil deGrasse Tyson's new television series.

Astronomers map galaxies sitting within 35 million light years from Earth.

Nasa launches series of Asteroid Data Hunter contests to improve the way we locate and destroy meteorites.

Space capsule makes touchdown with astronauts Mike Hopkins, Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazanskiy aboard