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Alien life under your nose
A prominent physicist has claimed that we should look to planet Earth for the most alien of life forms. Professor Paul Davies, of the University of Arizona...
Is there life on Mars?
Scientists need to focus their attention on a frozen sea in their search for life on the Red Planet. Water is vital for life but the planet Mars hasn’t...
Could new planets have alien life?
28 new planets have been found beyond our solar system – but what does this tell us about the possibility of life elsewhere in the universe? New planets...
Secrets of the moon landings
As the world celebrates 40 years since man first set foot on the moon, read on to find out what they didn’t tell you about this landmark event. From...
NASA searches for cash
NASA has warned it may have to scrap future moon and Mars missions because it cannot find the cash. The cash-strapped US space agency does not have enough...
Story of the moon landings
Astronaut Neil Armstrong took his first step on the moon at 2.56 on July 21, 1969. Read on to find out more about this landmark event. “One small step...
Dark matter
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have created a map showing how the mysterious ‘dark matter’ of the universe has changed over time...
Bad breath banned in space
China has released a strict wish list for its next team of astronauts. Find out why bad breath and runny noses are banned. The country has released a...
Do astronauts burp?
Want to impress your friends with some quirky general knowledge?
Space travel makes you ugly
An astrobiologist has claimed that going into space could seriously damage your looks. It might be cool to be an astronaut, but Dr Lewis Dartness thinks...
Black hole in the centre of the galaxy
Astronomers have discovered a huge black hole in the middle of the Milky Way. 27,000 light years from Earth there is a giant black hole. The hole is four...
Brightest supernova ever
NASA has recorded the biggest star explosion ever, giving astronomers new information about how massive stars come to die. According to observations by...
Watch a meteor fall to Earth
Check out this spectacular video of a meteor entering the Earth's atmosphere. This is one of the largest meteors to hit Earth in the last decade, and...
Tomatoes in space
Tomato plants bred to survive in space could help solve food shortages in areas of extreme drought. Genetically altered tomatoes designed to withstand...
A galaxy far, far away
Scientists from Bristol have spotted the furthest known galaxies from Earth. Named JKCS041, the galaxies are 10.2 billion light-years away and a billion...
Runaway stars
Stars which travel faster than normal may have been flung from a neighbouring galaxy. Top astronomer Warren Brown has been studying runaway stars since...
Space dust tastes like raspberries
Physicists may have stumbled across a delicious anomaly. Scientists at the Max Planck institute were searching for amino acids - crucial to the development...
Supernova caught on camera
Astronomers have produced the first ever pictures of a star going supernova. For the first time astronomers have captured an ultraviolet flash at the...
Sun could knock out sat-nav
A rise in solar activity could cause problems with GPS devices across the world. The amount of radiation given off by the sun varies, increasing and decreasing...
Water found on distant planet
Water, one of the key ingredients for life, has been detected for the first time on a planet outside of our solar system. A planet with the not-very-catchy...
Martian dust devils
No, it's not a bowl of tadpoles or a tattoo gone wrong. This photo shows a Martian dust devil trail. Read on to find out how it's created. This curious...
Exploding star in 3D
If you think the new wave of 3D films, TVs and videogames are exciting, imagine watching a star explode in 3D. Stars die in different ways depending on...
Can a planet change its stripes?
Jupiter’s two stripes and Great Red Spot as familiar as Saturn's rings. But now one stripe has disappeared - and nobody knows why. The gas giant slipped...
'Planet' Pluto
When is a planet not a planet? And what is it about Pluto that has got astronomers fighting? Discovered in 1930 and once known as the ninth planet of...
Space food
What will be in astronauts' lunch boxes when they go to Mars? Soggy sandwiches, squishy bananas and crisps are unlikely to make the cut. The experts from...
The moon
Have you ever wondered how the moon came to be? Is it a part of the Earth, or does it come from somewhere else entirely? The history of the moon has been...
