The Perseids is one of the most reliable such events of the year and is expected to produce up to 80 shooting stars every hour.…

SpaceX founder Elon Musk believes both competing Starship prototypes in development could testing “in 2 to three months”. This is an ambitious target considering the…

When it was broadcast on TV on July July 20 and 21 in others, 600 million people around the globe watched it. While broadcasting those…

At 9.32am local time on July 16, 1969, Apollo 11 launched from Florida, firing commander Neil Armstrong, lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin and command module…

Stargazers across the world will get to see a partial lunar eclipse on Tuesday, July 19, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11…

Half a century has now passed since mankind first landed on the Moon. NASA Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made history when…

Damage from two powerful earthquakes of magnitudes-6.4 and 7.1 respectively which rattled Southern California on July 4 and July 5 is visible from space, NASA…

Diplomats at the multinational body have revealed the revolutionary decision will be made in a December summit in London, which US President Donald Trump will…

An unexplained heat wave is warming the rings of Uranus, even though the planet orbits far away from the Sun. The latest heat images of…

At 620 miles (1,000km) wide, Asteroid Ceres is large enough to technically be a proto-planet — a space rock on its way to becoming a…

The Strawberry Moon will peak later today (Monday, June 17). Here in the UK, the Moon will achieve full illumination at approximately 9.30am BST when…

Apollo 10 was the fourth crewed mission in the NASA space program, and the second capsule to orbit the moon. Launched on May 18, 1969,…

Gas giant Jupiter has scores of moons, the first of which was discovered by Galileo Galileiin 1610. Its most notable moon is Europa, boasting a…

Late genius Professor Stephen Hawking helped change the face of physics with his groundbreaking black hole theory 45 years ago. Mr Hawking’s theory predicted that…

Scientists have detected ammonia on Pluto’s surface, supporting the idea of an ocean hidden deep inside this distant world. A rusty red area on Pluto…

SpaceX is transforming space travel with its radical rocket designs. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has slashed the cost of space travel with its reusable…

On April 13, 2029, stargazers will see a speck of light streaking across the sky. What at first sight will appear as a shooting star…

InSight is NASA’s Mars lander and it is built to give Earth’s nearest neighbour its first thorough assessment since it formed 4.5 billion years ago.…