Space news
SuperWASP’s wrong-way planets are a surprise
A UK-led planet hunt has found nine new worlds around other stars.
Alien world is like one of ours
A European probe called Corot has discovered the first planet orbiting another star that resembles one in our own solar system.
New planet is like Jupiter
A European probe has discovered the first planet orbiting another star that resembles one in our own solar system.
Astronauts wanted, experience essential
A space holiday firm, Bigelow Aerospace, has become the first commercial company to advertise for professional astronauts.
Scientists probe Jupiter’s raging storm
Astronomers have produced the first detailed weather-map of the biggest and longest-running storm in the solar system. They used the world’s biggest telescopes to peer into a famous feature on giant gas-ball planet Jupiter called the Great Red Spot.
Serpent’s star set to collide with solar system
Have a good look at this star. For astronomers have discovered that it is on course to collide with the … Continue reading
Comet’s death dive into the Sun
A space telescope has caught a giant comet’s extraordinary final hours as it made a dive of death into the … Continue reading
Spectacular avalanche seen on Mars
A dramatic picture of an avalanche of Mars has been captured by a powerful camera from orbit. The collapse happened … Continue reading
Stars circling each other at record rate
UK astronomers have discovered a pair of stars twirling around each other at record-breaking speed.
Asteroid strike did doom the dinosaurs
A major new inquest into the death of the dinosaurs has decided they really were wiped out by a giant asteroid up to ten miles wide.
Mars Express probe flies by ‘alien space station’
Europe’s Mars Express probe is tonight skimming past a moon that was once thought to be an alien spacecraft.
Tons more water found at Moon’s north pole
NASA scientists have found more vast deposits of water around the Moon’s north pole.
