Earlier this month, Hubble captured this striking image of a galaxy in the Virgo Galaxy Cluster, 28 million light yea...

Three of Jupiter's largest moons – Callisto, Europa and Io – were captured by the Hubble space telescope in January t...

On 5 February, 1971, the crew of the Apollo 14 lunar module landed on the Moon. It was the third mission to land on t...

Hubble's photo of the galactic mergerESA, NASA Acknowledgement: A. Gal-Yam (Weizmann Institute of Science)The Hubble ...

An intense radio burst has been detected in real time by the Parkes radio telescope. Alan Duffy e...

CSIRO’s Parkes radio telescope was the first place in the world to detect a ‘fast radio burst’ as it happened. – CSIR...

Scientists are fossicking in our planet's most unearthly places to practise searching for lif...

As I step out of the lift shaft I’m hit by a roaring, warm, dry wind. The air tastes salty and, as my eyes adjust to ...

NASA will launch its first satellite designed to observe surface soil moisture in less than 12 hours. The Soil Moistu...

A ring system roughly 200 times larger than the rings of Saturn has been analysed by astronomers at the Leiden Observ...

NASA has released the first radar images of an asteroid that made its closest pass of Earth yesterday at a distance o...

If life can exist in the oily seas of Saturn's largest moon, then perhaps we will find it all...

Welcome to Titan, the largest of Saturn’s many moons. This weird world, about the size of Mercury, is utterly alien a...

Randall Monroe at xkcd has a theory about the white spot that is becoming visible on Ceres, the dwarf planet NASA's D...

NASA's Dawn spacecraft is closing in on the dwarf planet Ceres and has captured the first in a series of images that ...