The Latest Breaking News on Space

Scientists have captured insights into our universe with the world’s most powerful telescopes. Here are some of the most groundbreaking images

Astronomers believe the light has been travelling for billions of years and comes from a star that was swallowed up by a black hole sending huge bright rays towards Earth

Some stars just get unlucky. There are billions of stars within a typical galaxy. Yet once every 100,000 years or so, one of those stars will wander too close to the supermassive black hole lurking at the galaxy’s centre and be torn apart. These cosmic behemoths weigh in at millions…

The tidal disruption event ripped apart the star so a black hole could feast.

Scientists at the University of Alberta have uncovered two new "interesting" elements in a 3,000lb meteorite that crashed in Somalia in 2020 - as a third mineral is currently being analysed

NASA is canceling a planned satellite that was going to intensely monitor greenhouse gases over the Americas because it got too costly and complicated

The team will complete China’s first-ever crew handover in orbit on board the Tiangong space station, state media says.

Three Chinese astronauts arrived on Wednesday at China's space station for the first in-orbit crew rotation in Chinese space history, launching operation of the second inhabited outpost in low-Earth orbit after the NASA-led International Space Station.

China has launched a rocket carrying three astronauts to complete construction of space station