Space

Our monthly column now comes with a new easy-to-read map by Pete Lawrence.

NASA's Curiosity rover analyses Martian soil for first time and finds it similar to material found on Hawaii.

The privately-owned Space-X craft has landed in the Pacific Ocean after a three-week mission re-supplying the International Space Station.

Exclusive: Felix Baumgartner explains to Mark Hughes how his life has changed since his space jump.

The success of the Mars Science Laboratory shows that it's time for a real multi-national mission to the Red Planet, say Artemis Westenberg and Chris Carberry.

Gerard O'Donovan reviews the BBC documentary about Nasa's Voyager space mission.

The sun unleashed an intense solar flare on Monday night, which was captured by Nasa's Solar Dynamics Observatory.

A mission to land Europe’s first spacecraft on the Moon is to search for water that could be used to help astronauts survive on the lunar surface.

These striking photographs of the sky at night are some of the best images to be taken by amateur astronomers in the past four years. They are due to be published in a new book by Collins with the Royal Observatory Greenwich.

Amateur astronomers have captured some of the most breathtaking images of space over the past four years.

Star-gazer Sir Patrick Moore is convinced there's life out there, says Harry Wallop

New technology is frustrated by an old-fashioned approach to regulation, believes David Willetts

A new theory put forward by Harvard scientists suggests the Moon was once part of the Earth that spun off after a giant collision with another body.

A newly-discovered planet outside our solar system may be the closest celestial body in location and size to Earth, European astronomers have said.

Joe Kittinger, the man whose record Felix Baumgartner broke when he fell 24 miles to Earth, describes how he watched the stunt on tenterhooks.

Thanks to Newton, we know that the Earth isn’t really round – but why doesn’t the same apply to the Sun? Steve Jones investigates.

Felix Baumgartner’s jump has kept the dream of space as a playground alive, says Anjana Ahuja

Felix Baumgartner has announced that he plans to retire after his record-breaking skydive from space that captured the imagination of the world.

This is the picture proving that even from the age of five, Felix Baumgartner, the world's first supersonic skydiver, dreamed of reaching for the skies.

Felix Baumgartner, the world’s first supersonic skydiver, has admitted he was “terrified” and feared he would black out as he span violently out of control 24 miles above the Earth during his death-defying leap from the edge of space.