All news on the topic: Space

Astrophysicist Dr Natasha Hurley-Walker and her team spotted the mysterious object sending repeat radio signals every 18 minutes and believed they may have found proof of extra-terrestrial life

SpaceX boss Elon Musk has revealed when he thinks humans could reach Mars sooner than we thought, after his aerospace firm apparently took one step closer to realising his Martian dream

Increasing light pollution worldwide means looking up at the stars in the night's sky is becoming increasingly difficult for people who live in populated areas, according to experts

Scientists in the UK have put together plans to create a mind-blowing power source in space to tackle the current energy crisis which is taking place around the world

A huge 3.7 mile-wide comet hurtling towards the sun is believed to have come from another solar system and has been described by a leading astronomer as 'weird'

Incredible images have been released of an enormous 1,000-light-year-wide "superbubble" which surrounds planet Earth and was created by multiple supernova explosions

Top scientists in the US have developed a new laser tailored to NASA space missions to detect signs of extraterrestrial life on other planets without compromising activity

Former helicopter pilot Bruce Melnick has twice visited space on NASA shuttles and now works as an ambassador for the Kennedy Space Centre Visitor Complex in his native Florida

The radio signal was emitted from a star-creating galaxy named ‘SDSSJ0826+5630’, which was around when the universe was just 4.9 billion years old

There is a danger of a massive solar storm with the power of a billion hydrogen bombs following a huge explosion which sent out an 'X-class' flare last week, it has been reported

Britain's first-ever orbital space mission has failed to reach orbit due to an "anomaly", according to Virgin Orbit, just hours after excited crowds celebrated its historic launch

Virgin Orbit's Cosmic Girl rocket is due to launch from Spaceport Cornwall, at Cornwall Airport near Newquay tonight with hundreds of people flocking to the site for the historic event

An intense blast of energy that was observed on Earth was caused by the collision of two dense neutron stars that merged and collapsed into a black hole, scientists have said

The satellite, which has been in space for 39 years, is expected to break up as it re-enters the earth's atmosphere, although some sections are likely to remain intact

Author Amri Wandel claims aliens are yet to visit Earth but they do exist - and that there's a scientific reason why extraterrestrials are yet to make contact