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...
25 January 2012
The date has been set for the next leap second – June 30th 2012. Leap seconds help to keep our incredibly accurate...
08 January 2012
A pair of new American spacecraft entered orbit about the Moon over the new year period, with the aim of measuring the...
18 December 2011
A Gamma Ray Burst recorded on Christmas day 2010 was a special gift to astronomers...
06 December 2011
Giant lake beneath the ice on Europa could harbour life
04 December 2011
This week a team of researchers in France, Russia and the USA have reported that Voyager Spacecrafts 1 & 2 –...
20 November 2011
In September results indicating that neutrinos travel faster than the speed of light were released, this week the same...
04 November 2011
Models suggest the Milky Way should have far more dwarf galaxies orbiting it than we see - known as the the "...
04 November 2011
November will see the launch of two new missions to Mars - Phobos Grunt and the Mars Science Laboratory.
04 November 2011
Dr Robert Massey brings us up to date with what's been happening at the Royal Astronomical Society...
23 October 2011
Our Solar System may not be alone in having an abundant supply of water -- that's according to a paper published...
09 October 2011
A comet not far from Earth has shed some light on how our planet could have come by much of its water, a new study has...
04 October 2011
The first 90 days of observation from the Messenger probe are providing insight into the formation of Mercury...
08 September 2011
Gold, platinum and many other precious metals are more common in the Earth's crust than models of the planet'...
21 August 2011
Solar seismology may improve space weather forecasts...
07 August 2011
Nasa has launched 3 lego men on their way to Jupiter
07 August 2011
A paper published in this week's issue of the Journal Nature presents evidence that the Earth might once have had...
19 June 2011
Comet Hartley 2 has been found to be a more varied place than was previously expected
19 June 2011
An unique astronomical event – an incredibly bright and long lived burst of gamma rays – was probably the result of a...
05 June 2011
A group of Scandinavian researchers led by Göran Scharmer of Stockholm University have uncovered some clues about how...
27 May 2011
Jupiter's moon Io is known to be highly volcanically active - now, data collected by the Gallileo craft looking at...
27 May 2011
Molecular gas streaming away from galaxies has been spotted by the Herschel Telescope. This gas could be responsible...
27 May 2011
Data from the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) on NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has given us a unique...