SPACE

NASA scientists have warned we should curb our greenhouse gas emissions in order to prevent aliens from attacking and potentially blowing us up, according to a new report, the Guardian reported.

Reports indicate that Russia has lost contact with a newly-launched major telecommunications satellite.

The European Space Agency (ESA) has built a new camera capable of recording in 3D video, designed to stream live footage from the International Space Station (ISS).

In a recent statement NASA unveiled its new Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, designed to boost human space exploration beyond low Earth orbit.

A test flight of the 'world's fastest plane', the HTV-2, has ended in disaster after the vehicle crashed into the Pacific Ocean, it has been reported.

The U.S. military lost contact with an unmanned hypersonic test aircraft shortly after its launch, defence officials have revealed.

Scientists at the Search for Extra-terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute use 42 giant radio dishes in northern California to look for distant transmissions, but their quest for extra-terrestrial life was threatened after a lack of funding jeopardised the programme.

NASA's Mars Rover "Opportunity" has reached the Endeavour crater, granting scientists fresh insights into the nature of the Red Planet allowing them to study rocks never previously seen.

A new survey of the outer regions of Earth's solar system has found new evidence suggesting the possible existence of three previously undiscovered dwarf planets similar in kind to Pluto.

NASA researchers have discovered evidence suggesting that meteorites can carry certain DNA components actually created in space, indicating the possibility of extra-planetary life.

After observing three large explosions from the Sun over the week-end, scientists have warned users of satellite, telecommunications and electric equipment to prepare for possible disruptions over the next few days.

It seems UFOs are a hot topic at the moment, with sightings coming in from the U.S. and UK this week. Surely this is not merely a result of the silly season of news caused by the House of Commons' recess. Perhaps we are finally making contact with another world. Perhaps we are being invaded. Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps.

Orbiting the red planet NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has discovered evidence that warm, salty water may flow across Mars during its warmest months.

A new theory suggests the Earth once had a small second moon that was destroyed in a slow motion collision with its "sister".

NASA's is set to launch its Juno spacecraft today, on a mission that will help scientists study the origin and evolution of Jupiter, the solar system's largest planet.

British physicists have announced that the theory that our universe is contained inside a bubble, just one of multiple bubble universes in a "multiverse," can now be tested.

According to a new scientific report, a species of rat has masterminded an ingenious strategy that will see any predators that try to eat it fail miserably.

Virgin Galactic, the world's first commercial spaceline, has appointed its first Chief Financial Officer.

NASA's Dawn spacecraft is beginning the first of it four intensive research orbits, with its initial run around the Vesta asteroid scheduled to begin on 11 August.

As the Mt. Etna volcano came to life again and started erupting in the southern Italy on the island of Sicily, inhabitants were not worried but rather bemused.

The world's first space flight will include a mix of celebrities, scientists, and entrepreneurs who will all have to fork out $200,000 (£123,000) per seats for the two-and-a-half hour ride in the "SpaceShipTwo".

NASA has unveiled new plans to land astronauts on a near-Earth asteroid by the year 2025.

Early risers in Texas got a surprise when a UFO shot through the sky live on breakfast TV. Fort Worth, Texas, television station KXAS was showing a live shot of traffic at 5:40 a.m. when the UFO could be seen flying across the screen, prompting a debate on the real nature of the flying object.

NASA's astronomers have detected an asteroid not far from Earth which is moving in the same orbit around the Sun.The 200-300m-wide rock sits in front of our planet at a gravitational "sweet spot", but does not currently poses any threats, scientists said.

New footage has caught a mandrill monkey create a pedicure tool by pulling bark from a stick, granting new insights into the species' behavioural processes.

An earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale hit New Zealand's Christchurch city on Friday morning, Xinhua reported.

A magnitude-6.2 earthquake hit off the Solomon Islands in the Pacific Ocean northeast of Australia on Thursday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.

NASA's Hubble Telescope has discovered a new fourth moon orbiting the ice-world planet Pluto.

An independent review of the BBC's science coverage has indicated that the news agency gives far too much credence to fringe views that border on opinion rather than fact.