A Martian meteorite picked up in Africa came from one of the longest-lived volcanic...
Space Science News Stories
News articles about space science, astronomy, rockets, planets, galaxies, stars...
Changes deep in the Earth's core are changing the Earth's rotation and affecting how long days are.
How Venus lost all its water in its early history...
Scientists have recovered material from a gigatic explosion in 1908 which destroyed thousands of square kilometres of...
A wake of material from a comet which skimmed through the Solar atmosphere in 2011 is being used to probe the...
The Atacama Large Millimetre Array has caught an image of what may be a planet in the process of forming.
Just one return trip to Mars would eat up about two-thirds of an astronaut's lifetime "safe" dose of...
Water detected on Jupiter where it shouldn't be has been tracked to a recent comet impact...
The Kepler satellite has announced this week the best possible candidates for habitable planets around distant stars
In the 7 months since it landed the Curiosity rover has rolled 738 meters but one small step for a rover has been a...
An analysis of data collected by the Planck Telescope supports a period of rapid expansion shortly after the big bang...
Inspiration Mars, a private company founded by former space tourist Dennis Tito, hopes to send a manned craft to fly...
This month has seen the MARS2013 simulation underway in a desert in the Northern Sahara...
Since their discovery cosmic rays have been a mystery. Now, an orbiting gamma-ray telescope has managed to identify...
A team led by Paul Renne at the Berkeley Geochronology Center in California have shed new light on the asteroid impact...
A free-floating planet has been discovered in space...
There is a mystery surrounding the amount of infrared light that bathes the universe –the so called cosmic infrared...
A meteorite that fell to Earth in 2011 contains trapped samples of the Martian surface, interior and atmosphere.
This week has seen planetary scientists gathering in Madrid for the European Planetary Science Congress, and several...
The drill bits which the Curiosity rover will use to examine Martian rocks may be contaminated with Earth life.
A paper published this week in the Astrophysical Journal suggests that up to 90% of supernova explosions go unseen by...
This week, a team in Barcelona have announced that they have signed a launch service contract for a Chinese rocket to...
Is there an upper limit to just how massive a star can be...