Space

Scientists have found evidence of a “space hurricane” for the first time. The storm, made up of swirling clouds of plasma, raged in Earth’s upper atmosphere for hours, dumping huge amounts of electrons like rain in a system that resembles a regular hurricane.

Rocket Lab has made a name for itself in short space of time by focusing on highly frequent launches of small satellites, but now the space startup believes it has bigger fish to fry, introducing a larger rocket named Neutron.

NASA astronauts have completed a seven-hour spacewalk to prepare the International Space Station for the arrival of a new set of solar panels that will help support the ageing array that’s been serving the station since December 2000.

A new study has analyzed asteroid dust recently discovered in the Chicxulub asteroid crater. The findings further support the theory that the dramatic impact was the cause of the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs.

NASA has released the first HD, 360-degree panorama from the Perseverance rover's mast-mounted cameras. The composite image is the first of many that the rover will take as it unravels the secrets still harbored by the Red Planet.

Massive galaxies may be siphoning off star forming material from the very hearts of smaller satellite galaxies, causing the cosmic structures to stagnate and essentially cease evolving, as their larger cousins continue to grow.

NASA has released a new video that includes historic color, high-resolution footage from multiple cameras on the Mars 2020 spacecraft as it delivered the Perseverance rover to the surface of the Red Planet last week.

New observations of its distance from Earth have shown that Cygnus X-1, the first black hole ever discovered, is much more massive than previously estimated. In fact, it's the most massive black hole ever detected without using gravitational waves.

The latest resupply mission to the ISS is carrying a very special shipment of pills from the University of Adelaide as part of a project to develop techniques to allow astronauts to manufacture pharmaceuticals on long deep-space missions.

NASA has released the first high-resolution images sent back by the Perseverance Mars rover, including a dramatic picture taken by the Sky Crane landing vehicle of it just before touching down on the Red Planet.

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has safely landed on the Red Planet. The robotic explorer touched down in the Jezero Crater at 3:55 pm EST after a dramatic seven-minute descent, marking the beginning of the most ambitious interplanetary mission yet.

A team of astrobiologists at the University of Bremen's Center of Applied Space Technology (ZARM) has grown cyanobacterium at low pressure using only Martian materials, demonstrating future astronauts could grow their own food on the Red Planet.