Space news headlines

The storm around the planet's equator is twice as strong as a Category 5 hurricane on Earth.

First came the darkening skies, then the crescent-shaped shadows on the ground, and finally an eruption of cheers.

NASA's Mars Perseverance rover is continuing to explore the red planet, documenting everything it comes across with a high-quality navigational camera that continues to capture sights never before seen by humans.

Tonight's harvest supermoon will be about 22,600 kilometres closer to Earth than usual, making it appear about 5 per cent larger and 13 per cent brighter than the average full moon.

Instead of a scheduled six months in space, Frank Rubio spent 371 days in orbit.

Scientists estimate the capsule holds at least a cup of rubble from the carbon-rich asteroid known as Bennu, but won't know for sure until the container is opened

The space agency still can't explain a handful of sightings and wants better scientific techniques to investigate incidents.

A newly discovered comet will be visible in Australian skies as it flies by Earth, but spotting it will take some know-how.

The crossing at Rafah, in the south of Gaza and the north of Egypt, is fast becoming a lifeline for millions of civilians.

This small-scale exploration lander is designed to demonstrate a "pinpoint" landing at a specific location within 100 meters.

India launched its first space mission to study the sun on Saturday, less than two weeks after a successful uncrewed landing near the south polar region of the moon.

India has become the fourth nation to land successfully on the moon, and the video footage is starting to roll out

The record currently stands at just under five hours from New York to London, pushed on by a favourable jetstream.

The Solar Orbiter mission has discovered jets of material rapidly releasing from the sun's outer atmosphere.

Previously, only the United States, China and the former Soviet Union have completed soft landings on the lunar surface.

India's Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft is swooping toward the moon's surface ahead of its historic landing attempt, and it's capturing some stunning visuals on the way.

Astronomers have been puzzling over a mystery on Neptune, and now they think they have unlocked its secret.

The original near-infrared image, released July 26, depicted a pair of young stars named Herbig-Haro 46/47.

The Russian space agency says its Luna-25 spacecraft has crashed into the moon.

Virgin Galactic has sent its first paying customers to the edge of space.

Witnesses reported hearing a 'boom' and feeling the ground shake after spotting the light soaring across the sky over Victoria.

Whatever goes up, must come down, and sometimes that comes with a big price tag.

A rare celestial event will appear in Australia's skies later this month - and if you miss it, you'll be waiting a while to see it again.

If humans don't manage to find a solution "deeper challenges" could be faced down the road, a top physicist has warned.

From across the globe, skygazers have enjoyed a beautiful supermoon rise over the horizon. And it'll rise again on August 31.

The Voyager mission team at NASA has been able to detect a signal from Voyager 2 after losing contact with the spacecraft.

The acorn-shaped object stunned authorities when it washed ashore at Green Head, about 220 kilometres north of Perth on June 17.

For the first time in a long time, August this year will have the unusual distinction of having two sturgeon supermoons.

A top Pentagon official has attacked this week's widely watched congressional hearing on UFOs.

The US is concealing a longstanding program that retrieves and reverse engineers unidentified flying objects, a former Air Force intelligence officer testified on Wednesday.

A famous quote says that any technology that is advanced enough often seems like magic.So when things wash up on the beach that nobody can recognise, people are quick to speculate on their mysterious origins.

A mystery object believed to be space junk has been removed from a Western Australian beach as questions swirl about where it came from and where it will end up.

Residents from rural Queensland to Melbourne posted on social media with different theories of what they saw but many weren't quite right.

The Webb Space Telescope is marking one year of cosmic photographs with one of its best yet: the dramatic close-up of dozens of stars at the moment of birth.

Harvard professor Avi Loeb believes he may have found fragments of alien technology from a meteor that landed in the waters off of Papua, New Guinea in 2014.

From the top of the tallest mountain in the pacific, to the sets of hollywood blockbusters: these are the world's largest Telescopes.

It was a bit overcast on much of the east coast as the brightest moon of the year so far rose but the rest of the world gave us a preview a nigh earlier.

If you look up at the skies tonight and catch a glimpse of the moon, it will look a little different.

A European space telescope blasted off Saturday on a quest to explore the mysterious and invisible realm known as the dark universe.

Virgin Galactic's rocket-powered plane, carrying two pilots, soared into the upper atmosphere on its third mission to reach space on Saturday morning.

Scientists have observed for the first time the faint ripples caused by the motion of black holes that are gently stretching and squeezing everything in the universe.

Mars' landscape is covered with incredible mountain ranges, sand dunes and ice caps.

The sun sets as seen between buildings along 42nd Street in New York during a phenomenon known as Manhattanhenge.

Earthlings have been given awe-inspiring glimpses of our home galaxy in this stunning selection of photographs.

The study is a first step by the US space agency in trying to explain mysterious sightings in the sky.

The mission is the latest space project by the oil-rich nation after it launched a spacecraft to mars. This time they're looking to go even further beyond.

The International Space Station has rolled out the welcome mat for two Saudi visitors, including the kingdom's first female astronaut.

Saudi Arabia’s first astronauts in decades have rocketed toward the International Space Station on a chartered multimillion-dollar flight Sunday.

People across the state have reported seeing mysterious bright blue and green flashes in the sky, followed by a boom.

The Perseverance rover has captured new images that appear to reveal geologic evidence of a fast-flowing river that fed into Jezero Crater, the site of an ancient Martian lake.