Space news

Asteroid 2014 HQ124 is set to fly past Earth just three lunar distances away on 8 June.

Asteroid 2014 HQ124 is said to be half a mile wide and can be seen online via Slooh Space Camera

Nasa's Hubble snaps spectacular cosmos image for Ultraviolet Coverage of Hubble Ultra Deep Field study

Swedish artist Mikael Genberg has backing from US technology company and Nasa affiliate Astrobotic.

Nasa's Cassini mission examines atmospheres of exoplanets using Saturn's moon Titan.

Nasa's Human Research Program will study spaceflight effects on human body using identical twins.

Nasa's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer study of black holes has led to re-examination of doughnut theory.

Nasa has unveiled a 'global selfie' made from over 30,000 photographs collected for an Earth Day campaign in April.

Astronomers at a House Science Committee meeting said they will find alien life within the next 20 years

The Camelopardalid meteor shower from Comet 209P/LINEAR is set to take place for the first time on night of 23 May.

Nasa's Archaeology, Anthropology And Interstellar Communications suggests rock carvings were made by aliens.

Meteors from Comet 209P/LINEAR can reflect radio waves which can be transmitted through FM reception.

The Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator, led by Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, will help spacecraft land on Mars.

Methanogens, oldest microorganisms on Earth which do not require oxygen, may thrive on Mars

Nasa's Hubble Space Telescope and Cassini spacecraft have captured images of auroras around Saturn.

The Camelopardalid meteor shower will occur on 23/24 May as Earth passes through debris from Comet 209P/LINEAR.

Nasa has released a video depicting the collision of two neutron stars resulting in the creation of a black hole.

Analysis of geological material suggests dates of reported asteroid collision cannot explain Clovis and mammoth extinctions.

A robot arm developed in Switzerland could be used in the Clean- mE project to capture space debris.

Saturn will be bright and visible in the sky on 10 May when it aligns with the sun and Earth.

British planetary scientist Colin Pillinger has died aged 70 after suffering a brain haemorrhage.

Astronomers from the University of Utah have discovered a hypervelocity star LAMOST–HVS1.

Nasa astronomers reveal possible oceans and layers of Jupiter's moon Ganymede that may support primitive life.

Dutch astronomers from Leiden University have found a day on exoplanet Beta Pictoris b last 8 hours.

Nasa has announced the Curiosity Mars rover has drilled another hole into Mars to extract a sample for analysis.

Nasa's Curiosity Mars Rover has captured the first ever image of giant asteroids Ceres and Vesta from Mars.

Nasa has released an animation of the US tornadoes using data from NOAA's GOES-East satellite.

An annular solar eclipse will take place on Tuesday 29 April which will transform Sun into 'ring of fire'.

Spitzer and Wise telescopes locate coldest brown dwarf star-like body nearest our solar system

Nasa image processing technique uncovers Hubble Space Telescope photos of newly formed planets