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The meteor that crossed the Russian skies was a rare event and showed us “there’s a lot of stuff out there” in the solar system, astronomer Dr Marek Kukula tells Channel 4 News.
Astronomers have discovered when the world will end. But luckily the earth’s collision with another solar system won’t be for another four billion years, as Science Editor Tom Clarke explains.
A planet discovered outside our solar system may be the right temperature to support life, scientists believe. An astronomy expert explains the significance of the discovery for Channel 4 News.
Minnie Stephenson has been given a first look at the findings by the natural history museum and the University of Glasgow.
If you are looking for signs of life elsewhere in the solar system you might not expect to start in North Yorkshire. But that is where the world’s experts on extraterrestrial life – the astrobiologists – have been gathering. Or at least they have been meeting deep under the North York Moors in a laboratory…
Now they’ve re-established contact with their probe – missing, believed dead for seven months – they now find themselves at the centre of the greatest comeback story in the history of robots in space.
The Philae lander, thought lost after landing on comet seven months ago, has started transmitting signals confirms the European Space Agency (ESA).
Hurtling to the ground at over 8,700 miles an hour, Nasa’s Messenger spacecraft collided with Mercury on Thursday – but had time to send one last picture.
The US space agency’s Dawn mission is set to reach a historic milestone, when it becomes the first human-made probe to visit a dwarf planet after an eight-year journey.
Nasa’s New Horizons probe is to start photographing the icy, mysterious world of Pluto, to prepare itself for a historic encounter in July.
Ukip leader Nigel Farage faces a new opponent in Thanet South where the comedian Al Murray says he will stand in the general election in the guise of his comic character The Pub Landlord.
The first major finding from the Rosetta mission that landed on a comet last month is that the theory that comets brought water to Earth probably doesn’t hold water after all.
Stunning images and mysterious sounds are sent back by the Rosetta probe after its remarkable space-flight feat – but does it have enough power left to do its job properly?
The Perseids meteor shower is at its brightest on Tuesday night. Astrophysicist Nigel Henbest explains how they were discovered, why they are so bright, and and how best to watch them.
Rocks brought back from the moon more than 40 years ago contain evidence of a Mars-sized planet that scientists believe crashed into earth and created the moon.