When Neil Armstrong took his first step for all mankind in 1969, researchers obviously had no idea how much of a nuisance the lunar soil beneath his feet would be. The scratchy dust clung to…

Astronomers have found strong evidence that Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, is producing a jet of high-energy particles. Jets of high-energy…

A research team has uncovered what may be the first recognized example of ancient Martian crust. Lead author Munir Humayun, a Florida State University scientist, and colleagues analyzed  a 4.4…

Messier 15 is a gathering of  100,000 very old stars that orbits the center of the Milky Way. It is one of the densest globular clusters known, with most of its mass concentrated at its core.…

An international team say they know what is inside the enigmatic jets emitted by black holes. Jets are narrow beams of matter spat out at high speed from near a central object, like a black hole.…

You might be surprised to know that there are quite a few places we might be able to go to find present day life or evidence of the evolution of life. It would be easy to miss it, because we have…

Germans: ‘We’ve found second solar system’ This sounds like something from a science fiction comic when I was young, back in the days when Dan Dare was with Spacefleet, which was effectively the RAF…

Supernovae, those intensely bright objects formed when a star reaches the end of its life, 'start' with a big, expelling most of their material out into space, and it's always interesting when we see…

The sun emitted its sixth significant flare since Oct. 23, 2013, peaking at 11:26 p.m. EST on Nov. 7, 2013. Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation - the radiation from a flare can't pass…

A 1.1 metric Ton satellite will re-enter the earth's atmosphere in the next 48 hours, fragmenting into smaller pieces as it falls. The exact location of the fall is unknown, so you better watch out…