Whether you’re a hopeless romantic pleasure-seeker (I’m looking at you, fellow people who came into the world on the 6th, ...

A total lunar eclipse is the highlight of the month. For planetary action, Jupiter is well placed most of the night and there are many events involving its Galilean moons. Soon after sunset, ...

It was likely debris from Kosmos 482 — a Soviet spacecraft launched in 1972 as part of a mission to Venus. The launch failed. The probe never made it to its ...

Sky-gazers will have the opportunity to see six planets in the sky on Saturday, weather permitting, according to NASA.

Researchers have identified powerful Martian electrical discharges, similar to lightning, and strong enough to be observed from orbit.

After exposing notoriously resilient microscopic animals called tardigrades to simulated Martian soil, they began to move extremely slowly ...

A new NASA analysis concludes that it is "reasonable to hypothesize" that living things could have formed the odd organic molecules discovered on Mars.

How did life begin on Earth? While scientists have theories, they don’t yet fully understand the precise chemical steps that ...

Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the ...

People on the Isle of Man have a final chance to see Mars up close this weekend. The installation Mars: From Imagination to Science by artist Luke Jerrum draws to a close on Monday at Cathedral Isle ...