The constellation of Orion is one of the most recognisable in the night sky, but new photos show a dramatic red trail of interstellar dust behind its ...
Jupiter's moon Io is the most volcanically active world in the Solar System - but its volcanoes are in the wrong place. That's the conclusion of Na...
Jupiter's moon Io is the most volcanically active world in the Solar System - but its volcanoes are in the wrong place. That's the conclusion of Na...
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The European Space Agency has revealed the most precise map of the ancient universe ever made. The 50-million pixels all-sky image of cosmi...
Nasa and the European Space Agency have captured a rare picture of a 'ring galaxy' far off in deep space. The galaxy - ZWII28 - was captured by the...
A new app from the European Space Agency gives space fans the chance to simulate docking with the International Space Station using a consumer-grade d...
Astronomers are still waiting to find an Earth twin amid a plethora of newly discovered worlds, many of them stranger than anything dreamed of in scie...
A 400km river of methane discovered on Saturn's moon Titan has been dubbed a "miniature extraterrestrial version of the Nile river". The strange ri...
A hacker group known as Ghost Shell have posted what they claim to be 1.6 million login names, passwords and email addresses from the FBI, Nasa and In...
Venus may be covered in active volcanoes, new evidence suggests. It has long be debated whether the second planet from our Sun is volcanically acti...
An epic 'bridge' between two clusters of galaxies has been discovered in deep space. The European Space Agency's Planck space telescope detected th...
An epic 'bridge' between two clusters of galaxies has been discovered in deep space. The European Space Agency's Planck space telescope detected th...
The UK will spend £60m more per year on space technology. Chancellor George Osborne said that the UK will increase its contribution to the Europea...
The Milky Way galaxy is "embedded" in a giant halo of hot gas which extends for hundreds of thousands of light years, Nasa studies suggest. If the ...
The UK space industry is a well hidden success story. Like other nations, the UK is targeting space as a high-growth sector. More competition than ever is coming from Brazil, China, India and South Korea, which all have government-subsidised space programmes.
The UK Space Agency (UKSA) will invest £11.5m in a mission to go closer to the Sun than ever before and study its surface. The British-built Solar...
Scientists from British universities including University College London and Leicester are to play a key role in a one billion euro (£812 million) sp...
A mission to Jupiter is set to be approved tomorrow, when the European Space Agency meets in Paris. The Jupiter mission, which will cost £695 mil...
A cannibal galaxy with a powerful core has been revealed by two new images from the Herschel Space Observatory and the XMM-Newton x-ray satellite. ...
Incredible photographs caught by satellites from the European Space Agency (ESA) and Nasa show the massive scale of the sandstorm that blanketed the M...
Europe's new Vega rocket has launched on its first flight. The 30m-tall vehicle has been designed to put small scientific and government satellites...
Europe's dependence on the United States' Global Positioning System is coming to an end, with the launch this Friday of the first two satellites of th...
Scientists have discovered that Venus has an ozone layer. The thin layer, which is hundred of times less dense than the Earth's, was discovered by ...
The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded on Tuesday to Saul Perlmutter, Brian P. Schmidt and Adam G. Riess for their leadership of the teams that discovered the apparent "accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae" in 1998.
