Mysterious 'aircraft' were sighted 329 times hovering over a lake on the border between the two countries

It’s easy to laugh, but Britain is making steady progress in the space race. And with £40bn up for grabs, we should take it seriously

Astronauts Chris Cassidy and Luca Parmitano will be carrying out routine maintenance on the ISS

A Chinese astronaut who taught schoolchildren about the wonders of science from space, jokes that one of the highlights of her cosmic trip was chasing pieces of chocolates around in zero gravity.

Additive printing could lead to cheaper and quicker production of rockets

Deep cobalt colouring comes from drops of liquid gas raining horizontally in 7,000 km/h winds

Newly created UK Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Research Network would use new array of radio telescopes dubbed eMerlin

Margherita Hack, who died on 29 June at the age of 91, was an astrophysicist who explained her research in plain language for the public and who championed civil rights in her native Italy. She died in Trieste, where she had headed an astronomical observatory.

The new discovery is thankfully only 300 metres across and orbits at a safe distance from Earth

They orbit Gliese 667C, one of three stars 22 light years away in the constellation of Scorpius

The night skies were graced by the arrival of the “supermoon” this weekend, offering skywatchers around the globe one of the most impressive celestial events of the year.

Artwork by Christoph Niemann knits a combined scarf and glove for the southern hemisphere

An exhibition of startling images of the cosmos looks at the development of telescopy, photography, and our place in it all

China's fifth manned space mission is its longest