SPACE

Tomorrow, a total lunar eclipse - which will be visible from Asia, Australasia and North and Central America - will coincide with a 'blue moon' and a 'supermoon'.

Earth's magnetic field is crucial to the survival of life on our planet as it deflects damaging cosmic rays and solar winds.

The moon will be seen in a dramatic reddish hue for a short while, courtesy of a total lunar eclipse.

"IMAGE's telemetry signals were not received during a routine pass," Nasa said in 2005 declaring the orbiter lost.

These so-called "cosmic messenger particles" are some of the highest energy particles known to science.

Space company Rocket Lab has launched a giant reflective disco ball.into orbit, along with two missiles. Astronomers fears it will pollute space, doing more harm than good.

"I'm back! Did you miss me? This selfie is part of a fresh batch of images, direct from #Mars," the Curiosity's twitter team wrote while sharing the amazing selfie.

Recycling solid and liquid waste into Marmite and Vegemite "microbial goo" could be the key to lasting food supplies in space.

The new telescopes are not only capable of finding previously undetectable planets but also studying them in detail to determine any similarities to Earth.

Researchers have identified a weird combination of gases that could not exist without the presence of alien life.

New research has investigated the amount of light available in the newborn universe, which may offer some clues.

Nasa's Gold mission will learn how charged waves of magnetism and hurricanes down on Earth affect the upper atmosphere.

Mike Hughes had planned a ride on a steam-fueled rocket last year but due to last-minute hitches in his vehicle and government interference he failed to take to the skies.

A draft of a recent budget proposal hints at dropping the ISS funding before the service lifetime end of the space station.

"When Falcon Heavy lifts off, it will be the most powerful operational rocket in the world by a factor of two."

Scientists ran sophisticated models to understand which planets of the distant system are more likely to be habitable.

The Kepler telescope has so far identified more than 2,300 confirmed exoplanets since beginning operations in 2009.

The announcement will come two months after Donald Trump signed a new space policy directive instructing Nasa to return to the moon.

"While we think we know how planets form in a big-picture sense, there's still a lot of detail we need to fill in," says Kevin Schlaufman.

Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov rode the vacuum cleaner during routine clean-up activity on the space station.

The finding comes as Nasa continues to prepare for missions to Mars and beyond.

The Juno mission began in August 2011 as part of Nasa's New Frontiers Program. It arrived at Jupiter by July 2016 and the initial mission is to have it orbit the planet 12 times.

Going by its composition, researchers believe that the water on angrites and water on Earth came from the same source.

A fission reactor literally splits atoms to generate power and Nasa has completed initial testing in a vacuum environment.

From potentially hazardous asteroids to Saturn's moon Titan's incredible similarities to Earth – these are the best space stories of the week.

The afterglow from the massive collision has continued to brighten up since August 2017.

Current instruments designed to search for alien life tend to be relatively large, heavy and power-hungry. In addition, they can only detect indirect biological signatures.

A new study based on data from the Cassini spacecraft reveals that Titan's seas lie at an average elevation, like Earth's oceans.

Space junk is a serious enough issue for spacefaring countries to want to look for unconventional methods to clean it up.