Amazing story of a 17th-century Moon mission
A mission to the Moon was being designed by an Oxford scholar way back in the 17th Century.
A mission to the Moon was being designed by an Oxford scholar way back in the 17th Century.
A team of astronomers have discovered an Earth-sized planet orbiting the nearest star to the Sun.
Star Trek legend Nichelle Nichols came back to Earth yesterday after a flight to see the Final Frontier aboard a NASA observatory.
NASA’S New Horizons team have named newly discovered landmarks on Pluto’s largest moon in honour of scifi shows including Doctor Who and Star Trek.
Rosetta mission chief scientist Matt Taylor enjoyed a second celebration, picking up a rock award, after the probe’s lander Philae called home at last after a seven-month sleep on the surface of Comet 67P.
Planet-hunters have made a major breakthrough by discovering the first Earth-sized rocky world that lies in its home star’s habitable zone.
NASA scientists have identified the site of an ancient freshwater lake on Mars that could once have been home to alien life.
NASA has unveiled a stunning photo of ringed planet Saturn with distant Earth, Mars and Venus in the same shot.
A newly-discovered, Earth-like planet has left astronomers baffled because they don’t understand how it can possibly exist.
Queen musician Brian May has helped produce a new scientific paper about the distribution of dust between the planets.
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