Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus has everything needed for alien life to exist, scientists have reported, saying that all the six key elements have been found. Researchers at the Free University…
A mysterious flash which lit up skies over Ukraine’s capital on Wednesday night generated much speculation. Officials in Kyiv initially suspected it was a Nasa satellite falling to Earth but…
NASA has named a team of four astronauts who will embark on a historic venture around the moon ahead of a return to the lunar surface. Artemis II will see…
The big, puffy white moonsuits worn by Neil Armstrong and his fellow Apollo astronauts a half-century ago are out of fashion. Lunar haute couture now calls for something more form-fitting…
A newly detected asteroid has a very small chance of impacting the Earth in 2046, Nasa tweeted on Tuesday. If it does hit, the asteroid, roughly the size of an…
Walter Cunningham, the last surviving astronaut from the first successful crewed space mission in Nasa’s Apollo program, has died. He was 90. A Nasa spokesman, Bob Jacobs, confirmed Cunningham’s death…
The US space agency Nasa is all set to bring home its Orion capsule. The spaceship, which has been on a three-week journey around the Moon, is targeting a splashdown…
Nicole Mann’s five-month mission aboard the International Space Station is under way. The first Native American woman in space has said she is overwhelmed by the beauty and delicacy of…
The world’s newest and biggest space telescope has released photos showing unprecedented views of Jupiter, the solar system’s biggest planet. Scientists on Monday released the shots captured by the James…
The jacket worn by US astronaut Buzz Aldrin during his 1969 flight to the Moon aboard Apollo 11 was sold at auction for $2.7m in New York, Sotheby’s announced. The…