The next generation of giant telescopes takes shape

Last week, the European Southern Observatory council gave the go ahead to build a huge 39.3-metre…

China astronauts complete successful space docking

Chinese astronauts have carried out a manned docking with an experimental space module, the latest milestone…

NASA aircraft launches with NuSTAR telescope

Astronomers have just added another tool to their arsenal with which to probe the cosmos.

The plan to send humans to Mars

A Dutch company hopes to send humans to live on Mars by 2023. But there's a…

China’s manned space program set to take off

China may have its own permanent presence in space soon. Analysts are speculating that a launch…

Watch the transit of Venus

Mark your calendars: if the sky is clear on the evening of Tuesday, June 5, you’ll…

Space Junk: Cleaning up low Earth orbit

Space debris is a growing concern for NASA. Last month NASA issued a report stating that…

Gallery: Eclipses around the world

Japan to New York City, India to Bulgaria, eclipses are seen from different perspectives around the…

Watch the ‘ring of fire’ annular eclipse this weekend

The first eclipse of 2012 graces Earth this weekend, and much of North America will witness…

Russian Soyuz launches for mission at space station

A three-man crew blasted off from a space centre in southern Kazakhstan for a four-and-half-month stay…