Space

Roughly five billion. That is the number of Hiroshima-sized bombs it would take to match the energy of…

Light starts to flood over the Peak Districtpublished at 05:08 BST 05:08 BST Sophie WheeldonLive page reporter, Nottingham…

Vandenberg Space Force Base on California’s Central Coast has been a quiet outpost for decades, averaging less than…

From a distance, the exoplanet HD 189733b looks like the most reassuring thing in the sky: a deep…

As NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit began collecting images for a 360-degree panorama of new terrain, the rover…

NASA’s Mars rovers have accomplished a whole lot since the first one landed on the red planet in…

The middle of the Milky Way is anything but quiet. Stars fill the region, dust clouds make observations…

Mars’ innermost moon of Phobos has long puzzled planetary scientists who have continually debated whether it’s a captured…

PITTSBURGH — Lunar lander developer Astrobotic decided to sell to Voyager Technologies so it could quickly scale up…

The Swift Boost rescue mission will soon head to space. NASA/Ron Beard The NASA Swift Boost…

The Soviet Union launched Venera 13 and Venera 14 in late 1981 with the objective of surviving long…

A Texas beach can be closed during rocket launches by Elon Musk’s SpaceX after the state’s supreme court…

About 66 million years ago an asteroid roughly 10-15 km wide struck off Mexico’s Yucatan, gouging a crater some 180 km across — and the extinction that followed wiped out the non-avian dinosaurs and around 75% of all species