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Partial solar eclipse will be visible in the UK and Ireland on 10 June

7 June 2021

Skygazers in parts of Europe, Asia and North America can observe part of the sun being obscured by the moon this week, and a few places will see a “ring of fire”

Michael Collins: Apollo 11 pilot and 'loneliest man ever' dies aged 90

29 April 2021

Michael Collins, the third Apollo 11 crew member who piloted the first manned mission to the moon in 1969 has died, aged 90

NASA's latest moon photos show no sign of India's lost lander

27 September 2019

India tried to land a probe on the moon earlier this month but lost contact with it. Now NASA has photographed the target landing site, but can't see the craft

Best ever map of Milky Way shows our galaxy is warped in an S-shape

2 August 2019

The most detailed ever map of the Milky Way shows that our galaxy is not flat. It turns out the disc is warped into an S-shape

Nasa's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite

Three newly discovered exoplanets orbit a star 73 light years away

29 July 2019

Three new planets, which orbit a star situated 73 light years away from Earth, have been found. The trio are among the smallest and nearest exoplanets known to date

In this picture taken on July 10, 2019 a man walks past a screen displaying a computer-generated image of the Hayabusa2 probe, during a news broadcast at Akihabara district in Tokyo. - Japan's Hayabusa2 probe landed successfully on a distant asteroid for a final touchdown on July 11, 2019, hoping to collect samples that could shed light on the evolution of the solar system

Hayabusa 2 lands on distant asteroid and collects another sample

11 July 2019

Japan's spacecraft Hayabusa 2 has again successfully landed on a distant asteroid and completed its mission of collecting underground samples

OSIRIS-REx spacecraft captures closest ever image of asteroid Bennu

18 June 2019

NASA has captured its closest and most detailed image yet of Bennu, a 78 billion-kilogram asteroid which approaches close to Earth every six years

Some TRAPPIST-1 planets may have the right conditions for water

31 August 2017

Water on the planets nearest the TRAPPIST-1 star would be destroyed by UV radiation but it could survive on the cooler worlds in the habitable zone

Enormous exoplanet has an atmosphere hot enough to boil iron

2 August 2017

A planet nearly double the size of Jupiter and 900 light years away has a glowing stratosphere and an atmosphere hot enough that iron there exists as a vapour