If you ask planetary astronomers where the solar system ends, they will say well past the planets, well past the bright band of the Kuiper Belt where Pluto resides, and still further to a shadowy ...

But far less attention is given to the psychological and moral inheritance humanity may carry into the Solar System. Will we ...

For his latest series, Pilgrimage of Light, Mark travelled to hard-to-reach wilderness locations to project galactic images, altering landscapes while he photographed them. When we look at far away ...

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have detected water and carbon monoxide (CO2) in a massive galaxy nearly 12.88 billion light years from Earth; this is the ...

Spacetech start-up Skyroot Aerospace announced last week that it has successfully tested Dhawan-1, India’s first privately developed fully cryogenic rocket engine. Named in honour of Indian rocket ...

Just as Mars’ becomes swamped by a raft of new spacecraft sent to study the planet, scientists using the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter have uncovered some tantalising new discoveries. Detailed in two ...

Britain says it plans to develop a number of initiatives to help protect the increasingly crowded near-Earth orbital environment. Its ‘Plan for Space Sustainability’ includes a review of secondary ...

Beijing on Tuesday accused the United States of irresponsible and unsafe conduct in space over two "close encounters" between the Chinese space station and satellites operated by Elon Musk's SpaceX.

Located roughly 27,000 light-years from the Sun, the centre of our galaxy is dominated by a supermassive black hole 4.3 million times as massive as the Sun. Although scientists had long suspected that ...

Scientists using a new technique to image exoplanets in the mid-infrared may have just found a super-Earth-sized exoplanet around Alpha Centauri, the nearest star system to us. Whats more the planet ...

Russia has announced that its up and coming mission to the Moon, Luna-25, the country’s first mission to the Moon’s surface in 45 years, has been postponed until May 2022 at the earliest due to ...

The Japanese space agency is sending an ultra-compact, ultra-lightweight transformable rover to the Moon that will lay the ground work for a future crewed pressurised rover, say JAXA. Jointly ...