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NASA satellite captures new image of Marree Man, an Australian carving of an ancient human

This week, NASA released a new image of the infamous Marree Man, an enormous 'geoglyph' in the South Australia that's puzzled scientists for decades and which nearly disappeared in 2016,




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Winter wonderland in Canada is snapped from 254 miles above the Earth by NASA astronaut on the ISS

NASA astronaut aboard the International Space Station snapped a stunning image of a full moon rising over the frozen Hudson Bay in northern Canada earlier this month.




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Prince William issues stark warning about the future of the planet

The Duke of Cambridge's dramatic intervention came as Britain recorded its hottest December day and unprecedented wildfires tore across drought-stricken Australia.




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NASA's Christina Koch makes history again with the longest single spaceflight by a woman

On Saturday, Christina Koch officially broke the record for the longest single space flight by a woman after 289 days aboard the International Space Station, passing mentor Peggy Whitson.




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NASA imagery shows Mauritius blanketed by tropical storm Calvinia 

The eye of the Calvinia tropical storm was just east of the island of Mauritius before heading south, as shown by NASA imagery on Tuesday.




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NASA says its has lost contact with mini-satellite probing nearby stars for unseen planets

NASA lost contact with its Arcsecond Space Telescope Enabling Research in Astrophysics (ASTERIA), a briefcase-sized spacecraft designed to study planets outside our solar system.




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Australian bushfire smoke has reached South America, satellites show

Devastating bushfires burning across Australia have generated massive clouds of smoke that can be seen from outer space. 




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Astronomers develop new method to detect oxygen on exoplanets

Scientists at University of California Riverside are using NASA's new James Webb Space telescope to detect changes in light that may be suggestive of oxygen on planets outside our Solar System.




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Satellite images shows New Zealand and South America are shrouded with Australia's bushfire smoke

Smoke from Australia's bushfires has drifted 2,000km across the Tasman Sea, shrouding New Zealand .




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NASA discovers an Earth-size planet in a star's 'habitable zone'

The breakthrough discovery was announced during the annual American Astronomical Society meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii.




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NASAs alien-hunting space telescope finds a planet orbiting a pair of stars

Wolf Cukier was working as an intern for NASA when he confirmed TOI 1338b as a planet - he had just finished his junior year at Scarsdale High School in New York.




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NASA satellite image reveals the true scale of bushfire devastation on Kangaroo Island 

The space agency released two satellite images of the South Australian island highlighting the horrific damage the bushfires have caused to the environment.




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The photographs by Eleonora Costi that show Lanzarote in all its otherworldly beauty

You'd be forgiven for thinking these stunning landscape shots are evidence of life on Mars or another Moon landing - with its rocky terrain, Lanzarote is reminiscent of another planet.




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'Most powerful rocket ever built' emerges from its hanger and is loaded onto a BARGE

The core rocket stage of the so-called 'Space Launch System' (SLS) was constructed at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans.




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NASA satellite data reveals vegetation is expanding 20,000 feet up Mount Everest

Plant life is expanding in the area around Mount Everest and across the Himalayan region, according to a British study that observed satellite data over 25 years.




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Satellite photos of the bushfires Kangaroo Island South Australia

Satellite photos have captured the enormous scale of the devastating bushfires on Kangaroo Island off the coast of South Australia. 




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Student, 17, discovers a PLANET during third day of NASA internship

Wolf Cukier, 17, interned at the government agency's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland this past summer and he found the planet during his very first assignment.




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Natural oscillations from ancient star reveal age of galactic collision

Astronomers have used vibrations from an ancient star in the Milky Way that is viewable in Australia to deduce how long ago a massive collision event took place with another galaxy.




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A group of new astronauts join NASA under the Artemis program and could be the first to step on Mars

It's been more than two years in the making, but 13 astronauts have finally joined NASA under the mission that will bring the first female to the moon and some may be the first humans to step on Mars.




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NASA satellites reveal smoke from Australian bushfires will take MONTHS to disperse

On Wednesday, US space agency NASA revealed that it will be months before bushfire smoke clears since plumes are sitting so high the atmosphere.




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Moving to Mars: Designers reveal their visions for how humans will live on the Red Planet

The role that design will play in humanity's journey to the Red Planet is explored in an exhibition running at the Design Museum in London until 23 February 2020, entitled 'Moving to Mars'.




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NASA proposes mushrooms could build structures on the moon and Mars

NASA scientists have suggested using mushrooms to grow habitats on the lunar surface and Mars, which could even lead to more sustainable homes on Earth.




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Ground control to Major Dom: Cummings' Nasa-style 'mission control' plan rejected by Boris Johnson 

The PM's top aide wanted his boss to switch his base from No 10 to a new political hub two doors down in No 12. But Mr Johnson decided not to boldly go where Gordon Brown had gone before.




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Alarming before and after photos reveal the true impact of bushfires across Australia's east coast

The NASA images, taken six months apart, capture the landscape between Seal Rocks and Byron Bay on the New South Wales north coast.




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Jupiter-like planet is so hot that it tears apart hydrogen molecules in its atmosphere 

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.




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Former NASA astronaut thinks space tourism will become as common as travelling by airplane

Former NASA astronaut Steven Lee Smith, 61, from Phoenix, Arizona claimed today on Lorraine that in decades to come, space tourism will become as common as travelling by airplane.




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Before and after pics of NASA's Mars Curiosity rover reveal the Red Planet has taken its toll

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.




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Will the next moon landing be delayed? Proposed House bill wants NASA to push the launch to 2028

NASA has been fast tracking its efforts to get the first woman and next man on the moon by 2024, but a new proposed House bill wants the space agency to push the mission to 2028.




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NASA reveals 'space hotel' where ISS tourists can view Earth

NASA has revealed that it has partnered with a Houston-based startup called Axiom Space to send the first commercial space station into low orbit for a new generation of space tourists.




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NASA's Spitzer telescope snaps one last spectacular view of the Tarantula Nebula

The high-resolution image of the star-forming region - named for its spidery filaments of gas - is made up of data from several observations by the telescope.




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NASA's James Webb telescope has a roughly 12 percent chance of launching on time, says new study

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.




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Busy Phillips and Lilly Singh play astronauts blasting off into space in Olay ad for Super Bowl LIV

Busy Phillips and Lilly Singh know how to make an entrance during the Super Bowl. During the big game on Sunday evening Olay brought in special reinforcements for their Super Bowl commercial.




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AI spots a mysterious 'square structure within a triangular one' on the dwarf planet Ceres

In a comparison of human and artificial intelligence and its ability to interpret alien landscapes, an AI has detected a triangle on the surface of a dwarf planet, while humans mostly detected a square.




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Photos show the blackened crater left by the ESA's Schiaparelli Lander that crash-landed on Mars 

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.




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Iranian minister mocked for 'passing off child's NASA fancy dress costume as regime astronaut suit' 

Mohammad-Javad Azari Jahromi, Tehran's information and communications technology minister, last week tweeted a picture of the silver outfit and sparked ridicule.




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Donald Trump proposes $4.8 trillion budget plan that slashes social safety net programs

The White House is releasing President Trump's $4.8 trillion election year budget proposal, which slashes funding for social safety net programs.




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Stunning images show Europe and NASA's Solar Orbiter blasting off from Cape Canaveral on way to sun

The Solar Orbiter lifted off from Cape Canaveral Sunday night and will maneuver into a unique out-of-plane orbit that will take it over both of the sun's poles, never photographed before.




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Celebs go crazy for the Nasa-induced Broom Challenge that sees broom standing on their own

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.




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NME Awards: Sinitta, 56, flashes her bra in a bizarre NASA-style jumpsuit and platform boots

She's never been one to play it safe with her fashion choices.  And Sinitta pushed the boat out for the 2020 NME Awards held at London's O2 Arena on Wednesday night.




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Asteroid bigger than the Empire State Building has its own miniature satellite 

The binary system of space rocks was discovered by radar images from the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico and is called 2020 BX12.




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NASA announces open recruitment for its 2021 class of astronauts

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.




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NASA image reveals remains of an ancient lake that stretched across the Sahara 7,000 years ago

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.




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NASA will try and use InSight Lander's robotic arm to 'push' a troubled probe back into position

NASA will try to use a robotic arm attached to its InSight Lander to push down on a probe meant to drill into Martian soil which has struggled to achieve its mission throughout the past year.




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Legendary NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson dies at 101 

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.




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Scientists create stunning gifs of Mars' sand dunes to understand what conditions impact them 

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.




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WATCH THIS: A group of autonomous military robots navigate through an underground power plant

Scientists convened on an unfinished underground power plant in Elma, Washington to test a group of autonomous military robots in a simulated disaster scenario searching for survivors.




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NASA shares GIF of a new black hole 30,000 light-years away seen by students studying at an asteroid

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.




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NASA scientists launch fresh bid to probe Uranus and Neptune

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.




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NASA posts image of a mysterious hole seen on the side of a Martian volcano

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.




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NASA Curiosity rover creates stunning panorama of its home on Mars

NASA shared a high-resolution panorama of 'Glen Torridon' on Mars that is comprised of over 1,000 images and contains 1.8 billion pixels. The images were taken from Nov. 24-Dec.1.