Space News

The very idea that a black hole could have a temperature strains the imagination. I mean, how can something that absorbs all the matter and energy that falls into it have a temperature? When you feel the warmth of a toas...

A new visualization of a lunar volcanic region shows that vast, ancient eruptions on the moon could be larger than what we experience on Earth today.

The apparent explosion of a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle during a static fire test Sept. 1 could put into jeopardy the sale of one satellite operator.

The final resting place of the European comet lander Philae is a mystery no more. After nearly two years of searching, the lander's shadowy grave on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko has been found in images from its mothe...

The search is over, and looking at these images, no wonder it was so hard to find the little Philae lander! The high-resolution camera on board the Rosetta spacecraft has finally spotted Philae "wedged into a dark crack ...

As the Arctic is developed, how can space help safeguard this fragile environment? Follow the Arctic and Space workshop at the Finnish Meteorological Institute on 6 September. Livestream starts at 06:00 GMT (08:00 CEST)

"Actually, it's quite possible that the planet has already been in some way imaged," says Scott Sheppard of the Carnegie Institute. "That happened with Uranus, Neptune and Pluto -- they were observed but not understood b...

Less than a month before the end of the mission, Rosetta's high-resolution camera has revealed the Philae lander wedged into a dark crack on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko....

Queen guitarist Brian May says an asteroid in Jupiter's orbit has been named after the band's late frontman Freddie Mercury on what would have been his 70th birthday.

Mysterious alien signals from a star system 94 light years from Earth picked up by Russian scientists last year did not come from an advanced extraterrestrial civilization, but from an old Soviet military satellite, says...

Less than a month before the end of the mission, Rosetta's high-resolution camera has revealed the Philae lander wedged into a dark crack on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

I received an email recently from BA reader Derek Armentrout, asking about a story he heard. This anecdote, called "The Great Kersten Blunder", alleges that a programmer named Kersten made a metric to Imperial unit conve...

"Star Trek: Discovery" marks the latest installment to boldly go where no one has gone before, and for the first time, fans have a hint of where that may be. A new panel has shed some light on the show, even though the s...

This image from NASA's Juno spacecraft provides a never-before-seen perspective on Jupiter's south pole.

New spectacular stargazing sites perfect for astronomy and free from the worst effects of urban light pollution have been identified across the UK and are announced today.

In late August, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) announced the discovery of Proxima b, the closest exoplanet to Earth. The news fueled hopes of finding an Earth-like planet that could support life. Now, Mikko Tuom...

(University of Zurich) If two galaxies collide, the merging of their central black holes triggers gravitational waves, which ripple throughout space. An international research team involving the University of Zurich has ...

(Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology) Scientists from MIPT's Computational Materials Discovery Lab have discovered that the depths of Uranus, Neptune and their satellites may contain extraordinary compounds, such ...

(Rice University) Research by Rice University Earth scientists suggests that virtually all of Earth's life-giving carbon could have come from a collision about 4.4 billion years ago between Earth and an embryonic planet ...