SPACE

Hurricane Matthew's casualties were spread across three different states.

Simulations of the exoplanet's composition and radius show that it might harbour a large ocean.

On 7 October, the celestial event will be observed by astronomy enthusiasts around the world.

Spacecraft descended to surface of comet in 'collision manoeuvre' 16 years after launch from Earth.

Rosetta was launched in 2004 and a decade later saw Philae land on the surface of a comet.

Swedish Association for Sexuality Education makes promotional video encouraging recognition of condoms.

The billionaire and founder of SpaceX wants to cut the price of future travel to the Red Planet.

Claudius Gros wants to send a box full of microbial lifeforms to kick start evolution.

Hubble telescope images indicates a global saline ocean beneath its icy shell.

Space agency set to unveil findings from images of Jupiter's moon taken by Hubble Space Telescope.

Maps of light from just after the Big Bang show the universe is, in all likelihood, directionless.

Space agency to host conference on Monday 26 September to announce new findings from Jupiter's icy moon.

International collaboration is central to the future of human space exploration – that and imagination.

European Space Agency's Space for Innovation conference was held at the Science Museum in London.

Scientists propose swarm of comets and planetoids is also causing light dips around another undiscovered star.

The Space Studies Institute is to hold a conference in Colorado discussing breakthroughs in space propulsion.

The European space probe will be crashed into a comet next week.

As the Full Harvest Moon rises rises in the sky, a penumbral eclipse will be visible.

240 radio dishes will be used to measuring radiation first emitted around 13 billion years ago.

The clock will be the world's most accurate timekeeper and will help Beijing in civilian and military purposes.

Charon's unique feature may be the result of trapped methane escaped from Pluto's atmosphere.

A new 360-degree video captures how Nasa astronauts are trained to be weightless before going into space.

That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind

The new finding upends traditional theories about how black holes form.

KuangChi Science wants to beat Virgin Galactic by sending people from China to the edge of space.

Terzan 5 is a cluster of stars displaying unusual properties, never seen before by astornomers

Gravitational waves, which were predicted by Einstein, were detected directly for the first time this year.

Contact was lost with Philae, the first spacecraft to land on a comet, after it ran out of power.

The element carbon is essential to the formation of life as we know it.