Space

The world’s first alien life form containment facility is under discussion in Europe as ESA looks at ways to bring a...

European researchers are helping humans get to Mars by developing faster engines, solar forecasts and better shielding.

Various fields of physics predict we might live in a "multiverse"...

Galaxies aren’t as massive as computer simulations suggest they should be...

100 years ago, Einstein's theory of general relativity changed the world. Before that though, came special...

And has life evolved elsewhere in the Solar System too?

Meteorites on the open market routinely fetch a higher price than the equivalent weight of gold. But how does this...

Is earthquake prediction for California truly a problem beyond the powers of science, or is there something that...

A massive star ends its life with a BANG – a supernova - seen on Earth as bursts of energy in the form of light,...

Physics is full of surprises, but none so great as the discovery that 95% of the mass of the Universe is invisible to...

Recent Mars missions have produced compelling evidence for what was once a wet world, where life could well have...

When the clipper ship Southern Cross sailed into a living hell off Chile during the night of 2 September 1859, little...

Scientists recently spotted a planet being born. It's just formed and is still enshrouded within the disk of dust...

What is a thunderstorm, how is lightning generated by clouds, how much energy is there in a lightning bolt, and could...

Imagine we had discovered another world, slightly smaller than our own, with rain clouds, rivers and lakes on gently...

The Hubble Space Telescope has been sending us back incredible pictures of the cosmos. How have recent policy changes...

George Bush's plan to establish a permanent base on the Moon by 2020, and send astronauts to Mars by 2030, has...