Space Science News Stories

How the building blocks of life might have formed

New results shed light on excess positrons.

Space scientists have confirmed the discovery of an Earth-sized planet orbiting a cool, calm star about 11 light years...

After 13 years in orbit about Saturn, and making some of the most important discoveries in our Solar System, the...

Scientists rewrite the rules of Jupiter’s auroras to explain the latest data from NASA's Juno Mission.

Scientists report the first conclusive detection of vinyl cyanide, a molecule that could form cell-membrane like...

An atmosphere around an Earth-sized planet has been detected for the first time by UK scientists.

A Martian meteorite picked up in Africa came from one of the longest-lived volcanic centres in the solar system,...

A new theory on the Moon's formation has been proposed by scientists and it involves a big crash and a very fast...

The Dawn spacecraft sheds light on the dwarf planet Ceres...

Mars was once home to enormous tidal waves, new evidence suggests.

The first step towards a space-based gravitational wave telescope has been tested successfully by the European Space...

One of the biggest astronomical explosions ever seen has been spotted in a galaxy far, far away.

The early Earth was awash with water, new research has shown.

Impatient physicists in Durham are floating a huge balloon- mounted telescope out of the Earth's atmosphere in...

Pits dotted across the surface of comet 67P-Churyumov-Gerasimenko point to a hollow interior, according to new data...

As big as a golf ball seen from 10 million km away, scientists have weighed the smallest planet yet discovered orbiting...

The Philae lander, deployed onto the surface of comet 67-P-Churyumov-Gerasimenko in 2014, has begun to to send back...

The Soviets were the first to send a man into space, so why are so many Russian spacecraft failing since?

A 'super-Earth' water planet could actually be volcanic, changing our understanding of volcanism and plate...

Exposure to radiation during space travel damages brain tissue and affects performance, a new study has shown.

地球的月亮欠一个宇宙的起源collision four-and-a-half billion years ago seems increasingly...

Kites flown over Hawaii are teaching scientists about the history of Mars.

The cosmic gales from black holes could be putting a hault to new, nearby stars forming...