‘Quiet’ sun can also hit Earth with wild winds

The sun can lash the Earth with powerful winds that can disrupt communications, aviation and power…

Europe’s ‘Big Bang’ space telescope off to good start

A revolutionary space telescope designed to peek into the remnants of the "Big Bang" that created…

Venus may have been a water world, space congress told

Venus is characterised today as the planet from hell yet may have been closer to a…

Scientists say “super-Earth” has rocky surface

Detailed data about the smallest planet ever found outside our solar system suggest it is a…

Thunderstorm on Saturn is a record-buster

A tempest that erupted on Saturn in January has become the Solar System's longest continuously observed…

China starts building new space launch centre

China on Monday began the construction of its fourth space launch centre as the nation gears…

Discovery lands in California after two-week space mission

The space shuttle Discovery touched down safely on a landing strip in california's Mojave Desert on…

Bad weather delays shuttle landing to Friday

NASA postponed shuttle Discovery's homecoming until Friday due to bad weather at the Florida landing site,…

Space shuttle homecoming delayed again

NASA passed up the shuttle Discovery's first landing opportunity on Friday, bedeviled for a second day…

Shuttle astronauts try, try again to get home

Astronauts aboard the space shuttle Discovery again prepared to try to return to Earth Friday after…