Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles used satellite data to show that storms form when solar winds interact with the Earth's magnetic field.

Data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft reveals secrets about the composition of water beneath the icy surface of Enceladus, Saturn's sixth-largest moon, including an abundance of CO2.

Researchers at the University of Chicago used data from the Spitzer telescope to examine the planet, called KELT-9b, and find out just how inhospitable it is.

In images that surfaced online the rover's journey through Mars' landscape is laid bare. One the left is an image taken shortly after Curiosity landed on Mars while the right shows a snapshot from October.

NASA and ESA are teaming up to send a the Solar Orbiter to the sun. The craft will study the massive star for seven years and gather data that will help experts better understand solar storms.

The GAO says that technical problems with the telescope's primary contractor, Northrop Grumman, give it a 12 percent chance of meeting its slated launch of March 2021.

NASA's HiRISE camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter provides new images of the crash site of the doomed Schiaparelli Lander that hit the Martian surface in 2016.

A 'beating heart' of frozen nitrogen on the surface of Pluto controls the dwarf planet's winds and may give rise to features on its surface, according to a new study using NASA data.

The 17-year-old Swedish climate change activist will explore what actions can be taken to limit climate change in the series produced by BBC Studios, the corporations' commercial arm.

The so-called broom challenge first emerged several years ago but is enjoying a resurgence thanks to a fresh viral tweet from a US user - and plenty of celebrity support.

NASA has announced it will accept applications for its next class of astronauts, the 23rd in the agency's 61 year history, between March 2nd and March 31st, part of its preparation for the Artemis missions.

SETI scientists are sure aliens have placed a beacon in the center of the galaxy and are building a system that 'piggyback' off VLA telescope in New Mexico to detect the device's signatures.

Each of the asteroids flagged by a computer algorithm at Leiden University are more than 328 feet wide and will pass close between the Earth and the moon between the years 2131 and 2923.

Marodyne LiV - a vibrating device, resembling a set of bathroom scales - produces gentle vibrations that travel up through the legs, stimulating the growth of new bone cells

NASA captured a stunning image of what was once Lake Mega Chad 7,000 years ago. It stretched 150,000 square miles across the Sahara and would have been the largest on Earth today.

Katherine Johnson, the NASA mathematician who helped pave the way for the first American astronaut to successfully orbit the Earth, died aged 101 on Monday morning.

NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey spotted a temporarily captured asteroid that has been orbiting Earth for three years and has announced it is now our planet's new mini-moon.

The space agency says exploring different geological areas on the surface of Venus will provide insights into the planet's evolution and even our own climate.

Using the High-Resolution Camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), scientists have brought the sand dunes on Mars to life in order to understand what conditions impact them.

Astronomers have released the first colorful image of Earth's mini-moon that was spotted Feb 15. However, the lead expert says the asteroid may actually be human-made debris.

While observing an asteroid using NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, students spotted a new flaring black hole in the constellation Columba that has been named MAXI J0637-430.

At a meeting in the UK experts from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland joined a global pool of researchers to discuss the ice giants.

NASA has shared a photo of a mysterious hole on the side of one of Mars's largest volcanoes, an example of a 'lava tube' that could be used as the location of human settlements in the future.

NASA's curiosity rover has identified signs of thiophenes on the surface of the red planet and Washington State University astronomers believe they were formed by biological processes.

A team of scientists from Georgia Tech have come up with a new explanation for how ice forms on Mercury despite scorching surface temperatures that can reach 750 degrees Fahrenheit.

In Antarctica, meanwhile, ice has continued to melt from both the Amundsen Sea Embayment and the Antarctic Peninsula, satellite gravity measurements have revealed.

With schools across the UK closing indefinitely from this afternoon, parents are faced with having to entertain their children at home. FEMAIL shares activities to keep them busy.

In his new YouTube video, Mark Rober, 40, sprinkled Glo Germ powder on a third-grade teacher and one of her students to show how germs can spread.

Appearing on GMB via video link from his home in Houston, Scott Kelly - who spent 520 days on the International Space Station - said that routine is essential while families are on lockdown.

NASA has announced a new research mission that will send small satellites into orbit to study solar particle storms, which can cause geomagnetic storms on Earth and disrupt the electrical grid.

Researchers from the University of Tokyo discovered the single-celled organisms after spending a decade studying rocks found in the South Pacific Ocean in 2010.

Nasa's Earth Observatory has opened up an archive of pictures of Earth taken from space and is asking the public to vote for the winner in a knock-out-style competition.

Air pollution over the northeast region of the US declined by 30 percent last month compared to March 2019, as millions in the area are forced into lockdown to limit the spread of the coronavirus.

The NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory team continue to explore red planet despite not being able to go into their California office or use high-end workstations.

Kepler-1649c was discovered hidden away in data collected from the Kepler space telescope two years after it was retired by NASA and in seven year old observations.

NASA has finally revealed the name of its Mars 2020 rover. Called Perseverance, the rover's title was picked from a contest that received 28,000 entries from young students.

ESA released satellite images Venice from this month and the same time last year to highlight a distinct lack of boat traffic following the lockdown in March to limit the spread of coronavirus.

NASA and SpaceX set May 27 for when human spaceflight will return to the US. The mission will send two astronauts aboard the Crew Dragon to the ISS for the first time since 2011.

The lunar map, called the Unified Geologic Map of the Moon, has been created by the United States Geological Survey (USGS), NASA and the Lunar Planetary Institute.

The 'Ventilator Intervention Technology Accessible Locally' (VITAL) device passed a critical test at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York on April 21.

A study from Dutch researchers found chest pain, sweating and shortness of breath are the main three symptoms of a heart attack

Professor Sara Seager from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) believes astronomers should broaden their horizon's as they scan the cosmos for signs of life.

Hotels in Tokyo have been converted into quarantine facilities to free up space at hospitals and are staffed with robots. Pepper, the world's first humanoid, is greeting people as they arrive.

According to a report from Forbes , researchers in charge of the team of robots, which have already begun testing samples, say that they're conducting tests on about 200 samples per day.

A vegetarian or vegan diet may be increasing the likelihood of depression, a US-based study suggests.

American company Indoor Biotechnologies have used a gene editing tool to eliminate the production of the protein in cats which causes some people to suffer allergic reactions.

Eta Aquariids are created from the debris left behind by Halley's Comet and happen every year from the middle of April until the end of May.

Russian scientists suggest the mysterious 'Tunguska event' explosion of 1908 was caused by an iron asteroid that entered the Earth's atmosphere and then bounced back into space.

Studying anonymised patient records, UK researchers found that having abnormally small red blood cells appeared to double the risk of developing cancer within the next year.

Kernel, has unveiled two new devices according to a report by Bloomberg , both of which are about the size of a helmet. Those devices can both see and record brain activity.