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The Viking lander mission touched down on Mars in the mid-1970s and carried out a number of tests for alien life, including introducing water into soil samples, that could have actually killed the organisms

The Supernova Requiem explosion took place 10 billion years ago and was seen before in 2016 and a new study has found that it will be possible to be viewed again in a rerun

Elon Musk's SpaceX will launch the European Space Agency's Euclid space telescope this afternoon on a milion-mile dark matter and dark energy mission to explore the secrets of the 'dark universe' - follow live updates here

Elon Musk's SpaceX has launched the European Space Agency's Euclid from Cape Canaveral in Florida, US, as it heads towards an area in space known as the second Lagrange point

The two-tonne European Euclid will take off today on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket operated by Elon Musk's firm at 4.11pm from Cape Canaveral in Florida and will take a month to reach its destination

The first-ever commercial spaceflight chartered by Virgin Atlantic will spend 90 minutes touring the atmosphere while the astronauts on board conduct experiments in suborbital conditions

Scientists have found the planet Halla, a gas giant similar to Jupiter, survived when its star known as Baekdu rapidly expanded into a red giant, which usually destroys all in its path

Mercury, Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune will line up in a magnificent cosmic event this weekend as they will all be visible practically to the naked eye on Saturday

South Korean astronomer Bum-Suk Yeom has published an image of a huge sunspot that can be seen from Earth with a naked eye - but anyone who wants to look has been warned to use eclipse glasses

Mahmut Sahin could barely believe it when the 4.5 billion-year-old space rock crashed into his yard in the town of Elmshorn, Schleswig-Holstein State, Germany

The Civil Aviation Authority is working with King's College London and the RAF to see how normal people respond to g-force pressure required to get from London to Sydney, Australia via space

Scientists led by the University of Southampton have spotted explosion AT2021lwx, which occurred nearly eight billion light years away

The suspected meteorite smashed through the roof of a New Jersey home, ricocheted around a room before being discovered among the debris by the baffled homeowner

The image captures the precise moment the astrophysical jet moving at nearly the speed of light connects to matter swirling around the hole before being sucked in

Elon Musk's Starship is set to launch today - watch LIVE as the £2.4billion Space X Mars rocket - the biggest and most powerful every built - takes off in its historic maiden voyage, the first step in taking humans to Mars

Kyiv's military adviser Sergiy Popko said a bright flash was seen over the Ukrainian capital at around 10pm, but it has not yet been established what caused the glow

Sky gazers along the Exmouth Peninsular of Western Australia were amazed by the solar eclipse when the sun was completely covered by the moon, casting a 25-mile shadow

Stars In Mars will see a string of celebrities competing against each other in challenges and a public vote in conditions that will be comparable to life on Mars

The Mars rover has photographed strange objects that appear to stick out of the rocks of the Red Planet, leading some to believe that dinosaurs once walked its surface

NASA experts say an invisible supermassive back hole is rampaging through the universe, but instead of destroying everything in its path, it is creating new stars

Astronomers have spotted four of the oldest galaxies ever discovered which are believed to date back to the earliest days of the known universe, created after just 300million years

Ingenuity is one of NASA's Sample Recovery Helicopters, a backup retrieval system for Mars Sample Return. Samples would be studied to search for signs of ancient microbial life on the Red Planet

American astronomers have named the rocky exoplanet 'YZ Ceti b' - claiming it is a prime candidate for having an Earth-like magnetic field which could provide vital answers in man's search for alien life

NASA's ambitious "Moon to Mars Program Office" office was unveiled at their headquarters in Washington, US, yesterday which aims to get the first humans to Mars in just 45 days

A spectacular 'celestial treat' will be served up for stargazers just after sunset tonight as five planets appear in a straight line alongside the Moon in the sky