Space news headlines

Australians with their eyes trained skyward may catch a glimpse of a "once-in-a-lifetime" stellar event in the coming months.

'When I saw the data, I immediately knew we found something special.'

The devastating Hurricane Beryl has left death and destruction in its wake - and experts fear more to come.

The space station is expected to slam back into the planetary atmosphere at over 27,359 kilometres an hour.

NASA has had to again delay the return of Starliner crew Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams after thruster and helium problems.

NASA's Mars Perseverance rover is continuing to explore the red planet, documenting everything it comes across with a high-quality navigational camera that continues to capture sights never before seen by humans.

Residents stumbled upon several pieces in regional North Carolina in late May and early June.

The audio was misrouted from a training exercise happening down on Earth.

Seventy-five years ago today, a rhesus money was launched into space. He wasn't the last to leap into the void.

New research has underscored the need to rapidly develop space medicine ahead of planned missions.

William Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic “Earthrise” photo, has been killed in a plane crash aged 90.

The trip by Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams was expected to take 25 hours, with an arrival Thursday.

Boeing has launched astronauts for the first time, belatedly joining SpaceX as a second taxi service for NASA.

It collected samples that could provide insights into the less-explored far side of the moon.

A rocket launched by North Korea to deploy the country's second spy satellite exploded shortly after liftoff, state media reported, in a setback for leader Kim Jong Un's hopes to field satellites to monitor the US and South Korea.

A North Korean rocket carrying its second spy satellite has exploded in mid air, state media reported, after its neighbours strongly rebuked its planned launch.

Just 40 light years away, Gliese 12b, which completes its orbit every 12.8 days, is practically in our galactic neighbourhood.

Stargazers are in for a treat this week: The full moon returns for its May engagement, peaking on Thursday night.

Ed Dwight has become the oldest person to rocket into space after hitching a ride on a Jeff Bezos spacecraft.

A large meteor has been filmed streaking over Portugal, lighting up the night with a great burst of light.

Last night's severe geomagnetic storm caused the "Aurora Australis" or southern lights to put on a show.

A level G4 storm – the second-highest classification – is set to impact all of Earth across the weekend, the Australian Space Weather Forecasting Centre warned, which could cause power outages and disrupt GPS and communications.

A small eruption of cooler material rising and then collapsing into the surface was filmed by the European Space Agency.

China launched a lunar probe to land on the far side of the moon and return with samples that could provide insights into differences between the less-explored region and the better-known near side.

Many Central Texans hear SpaceX overhead every now and then, but one family in McGregor says their door was shattered by SpaceX.

It has a mass nearly 33 times as that of the sun.

Stargazers will be able to view the rare celestial event without the need for equipment, but only for a brief period of time.

The mysterious cylindrical object was sent for analysis after it tore through a home in Florida last month.

We've got a while to wait apparently - but when it gets here, it'll put on quite a show.

Total solar eclipses happen quite regularly - but rarely somewhere tens of millions can flock to watch.

The midday sky turned to night for several minutes during the rare astrological event.

In the very early hours of Tuesday morning, sky-gazers will get to glimpse a rare total solar eclipse. There's just one problem.

The map charts the 11 billion-year growth of the universe since the Big Bang.

The space agency hopes to better understand some of the biggest mysteries about the sun.

It sounds like something out of a sci-fi movie, but Lunar-grown plants could become a reality.

The storm could interrupt high-frequency radio transmissions, such as by aircraft trying to communicate with distant traffic control towers.

For a period of time in different parts of the globe, the moon will be almost perfectly aligned with the sun and Earth.

SpaceX's mega rocket blasted off on another test flight, which made it farther than their two previous attempts but this time, the spacecraft was lost as it descended back to Earth.

Russia's state agency said the president made the declaration in a meeting with members of government.

The moon is littered with wreckage from failed landings over the years.

It puts the United States back on the Moon's surface for the first time since NASA's famed Apollo moonwalkers.

Once upon a time, gazing at the night sky was an escape from manmade messiness on Earth. Not anymore.

For anyone who has ever dreamed of living on Mars, NASA is seeking potential "Martians" for a simulated mission to the red planet.

The European Space Agency is monitoring the satellite's re-entry into our atmosphere.

"It looks like a gigantic and magnetic storm cell with temperatures of 10,000 degrees Celsius, lightning everywhere and winds blowing so fast they would go around Earth in a second."

Astronomers have discovered a "super-Earth," or a world larger than our planet, orbiting a star about 137 light-years away.

Astronomers may have to overhaul their understanding of watery worlds in space after the shock study.

The company said the loss of the small alignment pin did not impact the safety of the mission.

An exoplanet dubbed a "super-Earth" that may potentially be home to liquid water has been found 137 light years away.

The space agency says Asteroid 2008 OS7 is expected to come within 2.8 million kilometres of Earth