Episodes

Curiosity detects unusually high methane levels on Mars

The European Space Agency has announced a new mission to study a comet.

An ancient collision with a newly discovered dark dwarf galaxy may be responsible for the Milky Way’s characteristic outer disk ripples.

A giant mass anomaly detected under the Moon's largest crater

There’s a new chapter in the on-going search for the origin of Earth’s water.

Scientists and engineers are trying to figure out why a key instrument on NASA’s Mars Insight lander has stopped working.

It was a hundred years ago this month that observations performed during a total solar eclipse by Author Eddington proved for the first time that light can be physically bent by gravity.

A new study claims the Taurid meteoroid stream could pose a risk to planet Earth.

Astronomers say moonquakes are being generated as the Moon continues to cool and contract.

The riddle of the most distant object ever explored

The world’s richest man -- Amazon boss Jeff Bezos –– says his Blue Origin aerospace company could have people walking on the Moon by 2024.

First possible Neutron Star – Black Hole Merger detected by LIGO

Magma is the key to the Moon's makeup

Astronomers have witnessed a black hole twisting the fabric of spacetime by its rotation.

During its first year in orbit the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter has made some surprising discoveries ...

Scientists will need to go back to the drawing board to come up with new ways in which powerful explosions -- known as novae – can occur on the surfaces of white dwarf stars.

Physicists have reached beyond Albert Einstein to develop new equations that hypothesize that singularities don’t exist inside black holes.

Astronomers have successfully captured one of the most important pictures in scientific history – an actual image of a supermassive black hole.

A re-analysis of data collected by the European Space Agency’s Mars Express orbiter has corroborated NASA’s Curiosity rover’s detection of methane on the red planet’s surface.

Potentially deadly asteroid has a far more rugged surface than expected

A new study has found that significant quantities of water was still flowing down Martian rivers much later than expected.

Astronomers have discovered two galaxies that appear to contain little or no dark matter.

Astronomers have discovered a highly magnetic neutron star called a magnetar which appears to have a lot of the characteristics of mysterious high energy pulses known as Fast Radio Bursts.

Scientists have discovered a giant 12 to 16-kilometre wide asteroid impact crater in Western Australia.