In a relatively short space of time, humans have gone from tentatively sending the first artificial satellite around the Earth in 1960 to ...

In a quiet corner of the Universe, tucked away on the edge of a Spiral Galaxies arm, is a Planet that teems with life and the inhabitants of...

There are many reasons why we are less than amused that Hillary Clinton didn't win the American election but one of the main ones was be...

In an April 2010 speech at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, President Obama directed NASA to send astronauts to an asteroid as the next step...

We can all breathe again as the 100-foot wide asteroid TX68 has whizzed by the Earth and as far as i can tell has avoided a collision with o...

Look up to the sky in March and you may just see another flaming ball of matter as well as the Sun because an asteroid is scheduled to fly b...

The battle to keep people interested in all things cosmos has been on a bit of a roll lately with Pluto, then a Lunar Eclipse and now the ...

For the moment Space is the new black due to the New Horizons trip to Pluto and the amazing images it is sending back to Earth over 3 billio...

If an object was travelling at 32,400 mph in a vacuum how far would it travel in 9 and a half years may sound like one of those hypothetical...

Everyone must have seen the classic 70s film 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' which depicted an imagined first contact with an a...

It's a well known fact, that if you stand on the Great Wall of China, you can see the Moon and if you have an especially decent telesc...

The anti-nuclear weapon brigade always make the same arguments about Britain maintaining a nuclear arsenal, mostly that they are very expens...

It was a year ago today that NASA successfully landed the Curiosity rover safely on the surface of Mars.  An amazing feat that you can'...

On Monday morning, at approximately 6am GMT, the latest NASA mission will attempt to land a space rover in the Gale Crater on Mars after an...

I don't know why i like watching space shuttle launches, seen one seen them all, but i made sure that i was at home today by 4.30pm to w...