A Soyuz capsule has arrived at the International Space Station just six hours after launch, having been the first to take a quicker route to the orbiting science lab. Instead of the normal 36 orbits and more than fifty hours of journey from the s…
[UPDATE 21/03/13] Let's not get too carried away -- the Nasa team isn't as convinced that their little probe that could has made it outside of the Solar System. It's definitely in a new region, but according to Ed Stone of Caltech "it is the consensu…
Astronomers have realised that a comet discovered last month appears to be on course for a close flyby of Mars next year -- and uncertainty in its projected path means that it could hit the Red Planet. C/2013 A1, discovered by Robert McNaught at …
The authorities in Russia are still assessing the meteor impact that exploded over the oblast of Chelyabinsk on 15th February, with almost a thousand people reported injured. At around 9:30am local time (3:30am GMT) a bright arc of light appeared…
After a hunt for Milky Way radio signals came up empty, the team of astronomers behind it has estimated that fewer than one in a million stars in the galaxy could have advanced civilisations residing on their orbiting planets. The team, which use…
The key to exposing past life on Mars may lie in watery, underground channels, a group of planetary geologists has proposed after studying a 92km crater on its surface. The team used images and data captured by Nasa's Mars Reconnaissance Orb…
Mars One, a nonprofit organisation based in the Netherlands, intends to establish a human settlement on Mars in 2023.They need astronauts. Anyone on planet Earth can apply if they meet the basic requirements. But obviously, the job isn't for just…
Astroboffins poring through data from NASA's Kepler telescope have spotted what they think might be the most Earth-like planet yet discovered. The object has a radius 1.5 times that of Earth, which lumps it into the class of extrasolar planets kn…
Spots galaxy formed 380 million years after Big Bang The Hubble space telescope has taken its longest look back into the beginnings of the universe and found seven galaxies formed less than 600 million years after the Big Bang, including one that…
NASA astronauts are living under the water in preparation for a future mission to an asteroid. Resembling something you would expect to see as a result of the work of movie special effects teams, this is very real. The astronauts are living under…