The Latest Breaking News on Space

The Orionid meteor shower becomes visible every October - here's how to see the spectacle for yourself.

Tanaiste Leo Varadkar confirmed yesterday he had signed a letter of understanding and legal documents that will allow the country to launch its first- space mission in the new year

The NASA astronaut who commanded the Apollo 9 mission has died

Virgin Orbit, a US company which provides launch services for satellites, has announced that the first orbital space mission from the UK will blast off from Cornwall. The rocket, which will carry nine satellites, along with a launch aircraft have been delivered by an RAF C-17 – a military, heavy-lift…

A radio telescope used to look back 13 billion years stumbled over signals that may change the way ever-increasing space junk can be safely managed.

Depending on weather conditions, you may be able to see a dazzling display of shooting stars

The satellite, known as the Educational Irish Research satellite 1 – or Eirsat-1 – will be launched from the ESA’s base in French Guiana between January 20 and February 20

It will be the first orbital rocket launch from British soil and the first British-led rocket launch since 1979

More than 50 meteors an hour may be seen as Earth ploughs through fragments left by comet

The commercial space company rejects criticism of satellite launches for the US military

US-led project examines fraction of a second after big bang and ‘how all the structures in the night sky started’