SPACE

After delays caused by a stray aircraft just two minutes before the launch of Antares on 11 November, the rocket was relaunched the next day and is now on its way to the ISS.

The massive SLS rocket will carry four astronauts in Orion spacecraft and will produce a thrust of 8.8 million pounds at lift off.

A rare conjunction of the planets Venus and Jupiter will take place on 13 November where the two brightest objects in the night sky will appear close to each other.

The unexpected entry of the flying guest has led Orbital ATK, which has a $1.9bn contract with Nasa for ISS resupply missions, to postpone the rocket launch to November 12.

In 2019, Nasa's New Horizons spacecraft will fly past a mysterious, distant object - currently known as (486958) 2014 MU69 - in the outer regions of the solar system.

Six researchers spent 8 months living in total isolation inside a small dome to assess the psychological impact of an extended Mars mission.

The cosmic event, dubbed SN 2014J, was discovered in January 2014 in the nearby starbust galaxy Messier 82.

"We are now conducting a thorough and fully transparent investigation of the root cause," the company said.

Astronomers have discovered a cataclysmic event that challenges everything we know about the death of stars.

The first configuration of SLS vehicle will stand 322-ft tall, which is higher than the statue of liberty.

Astronomers think that the icy moon is one of the best candidates for finding life outside our planet.

After the historic flyby of Pluto two years ago, New Horizons is on its way to a large, but rather unimaginatively named, rock called 2014 MU69.

According to reports, the new exoplanet is 13.4 times larger than Jupiter and orbits its parent star once in every 3 years at an approximate distance of 2.0 AU.

The goal of the exercise was to test the response capability of the network by characterising Asteroid 2012 TC4 as a "potential impactor".

Located some four light-years away in the Centaurus constellation, the faint red dwarf is known to host a planet roughly the size of Earth.

"These are the most comprehensive parallel observations of Comet 96P yet," Nasa said.

Scientists have selected the Caenorhabditis elegans and tardigrades to be the first candidates to travel to interstellar space.

Scientists found that by filling iridium, a metal delivered by the asteroid, with a kind of poisonous oxygen, cancer cells can be destroyed.

China's space agency reportedly says that the reusable spacecraft is capable of taking off from a runway and shooting across orbital space.

On 3 November 1957, straight dog Laika became the first dog to ever orbit the Earth aboard Sputnik 2, and the first living being to ever do so.

A galaxy of this kind has never been confirmed so early in the universe's history, according to astronomers.

Nasa and NOAA have found that the hole over the Antarctic ozone layer is at its smallest since 1988, but it is caused by climate and not by reduced depletion.

Although the asteroids are located a mere 160 million miles from Earth, they still appear in photos of distance galaxies at much farther distances.

Enceladus, Saturn's sixth largest moon, is one of the places in the solar system that could potentially harbour life as it holds liquid water, says Nasa.

Richard Branson now has as many as four companies dedicated to different areas of space.

The asteroid impact is believed to have caused rapid and extreme climate change, devastating the Earth's plant life and marine biosphere.

Camera technology has grown rapidly over the last decade and Nasa intends to make full use of it by equipping its next rover with high-quality imaging gear.

The existence of such a planet, which is the largest in comparison to its companion star ever discovered, was thought to be extremely unlikely.

Russian space agency Roscosmos has contracted the development of a nuclear powered satellite that can fire lasers at other satellites.