Space news

The successful launch takes the firm one step closer to space travel

Astronauts will live in the habitat for a few hours at a time for the two years that it will remain aboard for testing.

Nasa launches competition for coders to develop best algorithm to help improve ISS robot.

The private space tourism firm's second spacecraft model has been bestowed the name VSS Unity.

Tim Peak intends to live tweet while the game is streamed live to the International Space Station.

The SpaceX CEO says he hopes to put people on Mars by 2025

British astronaut wishes 'everybody on our beautiful planet Earth' a happy New Year.

Problem solved prior to arrival of Russian cargo ship for Christmas day delivery.

Peake says after some initial discomfort his body has got used to weightlessness in space.

Sir Elton John also received a tweet from Tim Peake quoting the singer's hit song Rocket Man.

Leonid meteor shower, from comet Tempel-Tuttle, will peak around 18 November 2015.

Pluto's distinct regions have subtle colour differences, scientists have shown in a psychedelic image.

The celestial phenomenon is the result of a lunar perigee coinciding with the full moon.

Nasa's Messenger spacecraft will crash into the planet Mercury on 30 April as it runs out of fuel.

The International Day of Human Space Flight on 12 April celebrates the first human in space, Yuri Gagarin.

The controversial project will announce the 40 successful people later this year.

German astrophysicists believe asteroids and comets will enter the inner solar system to cause apocalypse.

Slooh Community Observatory will host live stream of Gemini full moon rise on 7 December 2014.

Leonids meteor shower will take place on 17 and 18 November with 15 meteors per hour

Work is in full progress in developing India's indigenous semi-cryogenic engine that will be ideal for space flights.

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

One Earth project, created by Jon Lomberg, will send pictures, sounds, and data from Earth into space

Astronomers at Kavli IPMU, University of Tokyo, have found evidence of a blue star using Hubble

Scientists at European Southern Observatory in Chile find new planet around star Herbig Be HD 100546

The full Harvest moon is third in series of three supermoons and appeared on 8 September 2014

National Science Foundation scientists using Green Bank Telescope find Milky Way is part of Laniakea.

University College London cosmologists are conducting astronomical surveys to reveal how universe is lit

Nasa Apollo astronauts have described the smell of moondust as being like gunpowder

Giant Impact Hypothesis, Fission, Capture and Accretion theories explain moon's origin.

Astrophysicists at Harvard University find discharge line which might be evidence for dark matter.