final frontier

Three former astronauts are sounding the alarm about the dangers our planet faces from asteroid impacts and how steps must

The EU is set to launch the first satellite of its ambitious civilian Earth-monitoring programme, Copernicus, on April 3. The

Whenever you think of a planet with rings around it, Saturn probably comes to mind first. Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune

NASA’s Kepler mission said on February 26 2014 that it had found 715 new planets. These newly-verified worlds orbit 305

The discovery of a three-star system may yield clues that help scientists define the true nature of gravity. The system, which

Our universe is at even greater risk of collapse than has been previously thought, according physicists in Denmark. Not only are the

The Geminid meteor shower, one of the most intense annual showers that can be observed in the northern hemisphere, will

Scientists say the comet ISON’s five-million-year journey from the far reaches of the solar system has apparently ended in a

If you were to travel to Saturn and look back toward Earth, this is what you would have seen this