Aliens orbiting 1402 stars near Earth could be looking at us right now

Possible alien inhabitants living on planets orbiting 1402 nearby stars could easily spot Earth – and…

Venus has huge landmasses that jostle about like Earth's continents

Huge blocks of Venus’s crust appear to be jostling and bumping together similar to continental blocks…

Venus has huge land masses that jostle about like Earth's continents

Huge blocks of Venus’s crust appear to be jostling and bumping together similar to continental blocks…

An enormous ‘mega comet’ is flying into our solar system

Astronomers have found a large object entering our solar system – it could be an unusually…

Pluto is covered in huge red patches and we don't know what they are

Huge swathes of Pluto’s surface are covered in a mysterious red material, and planetary scientists’ best…

China is launching the first astronauts to its new space station

The first module of the Chinese Space Station launched in April, and on 17 June it…

China has launched the first astronauts to its new space station

The first module of the Chinese Space Station launched in April, and on 17 June it…

NASA image captures powerful energy at the heart of the Milky Way

Bright threads of energy and gas plumes interweave at the Milky Way’s heart in a new…

Mysterious dimming of Betelgeuse was the result of star ejecting gas

Betelgeuse, usually one of the brightest stars in the sky, dimmed by about 65 per cent…

Enormous strands of galaxies in the cosmic web appear to be spinning

Clusters of galaxies in the universe are connected by colossal filaments that stretch across hundreds of…