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Above: The collision of Andromeda and the Milky Way, as pictured by Nasa The Milky Way is on a collision course with another galaxy, and the ...
A stunning image of the 'Pinwheel Galaxy', also known as M101, has been released by Nasa. The photograph (above) combines data in the infrared,...
The SpaceX Dragon capsule has successfully returned to Earth on Thursday after a mission to restock the International Space Station. The capsule t...
With Earth's horizon and thin line of atmosphere in the background, the SpaceX Dragon commercial cargo craft has never looked more beautiful. After...
Nasa has asked any future visitors to the Moon to keep away from the Apollo landing sites out of respect for history. There are 26 teams and privat...
The International Space Station's Expedition 31 crew grappled and attached SpaceX's Dragon capsule to the space station on Friday, marking a new era f...
In the same week that Google Analytics used Tweets to predict that London Mayoral election incumbent Boris Johnson was holding a four-point lead over long time Labour rival Ken Livingston, IBM also rolled out a law enforcement analytics package aimed at helping to predict and ultimately prevent criminal and terrorist activity. Big data, big results.
SpaceX's second flight to orbit has been delayed by technical problems. The California-based company was due this morning to send its Dragon capsul...
This week's extraordinary nasa photos include an amazingly psychedelic look at space. The image above, is a composite shot of 18 images captured b...
Kazakhstan shook with the sound of burning rockets overnight, as the Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft took off for the international space station. The s...
he BTE site is now officially 6 days old. The response so far? Whoa Nelly, it's rather beyond anything I could have imagined!...
This magnificent image is a portrait of the Earth taken in one single shot. At 121 megapixels, it is the highest resolution image of the planet ev...
This week, Nasa gives you the gif that keeps on giving. You're looking at the movement of Mars sand dunes, which is highly unexpected according to...
Nasa has detected infrared light streaming from a "Super Earth" marking a huge leap in the discovery of life on other planets. Nasa's Spitzer spac...
Sunday night's sky was dominated worldwide by a so-called 'supermoon', prompting photographers everywhere to take some amazing snaps of the lunar phen...
Scientists from British universities including University College London and Leicester are to play a key role in a one billion euro (£812 million) sp...
UPDATED:An unidentified object has been spotted near the sun, as seen in the video above. The object apparently bears no similarity to any Nasa cr...
A rubber chicken has followed in the footsteps of the world's leading astronauts and flown into space for Nasa. She's not just any chicken, this b...
This weekend saw the peak of the Lyrid meteor shower, a yearly celestial event which lights up the night skies across the world. Lyrids are pieces...
Truth be told, once you’ve got over the lack of gravity, it’s probably quite dull being stuck out in space. A case in point is a video posted ...
The young North Korea boss and trainee despot has an unenviably difficult task stepping into the crazy shoes of his bonkers father, and attempting to waddle around in them with a similarly jaunty gait.
The American space shuttle Discovery has made its final journey ahead of retirement at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Virginia. T...
The sun has spewed out another magnificent solar flare, shown in a video released by Nasa. The spectacular display of magnetic plasma, shown in th...
Craters from asteroid impacts may be one of the best places to look for life on Mars, a study suggests. Scientists have found microbes thriving mor...
New analysis of soil samples taken on a Mars mission in 1976 have revealed evidence of life, a report claims. The samples, collected by Nasa’s t...
