The Latest Breaking News from Sara Webb

Phenomenon enjoyed from Victoria to New Zealand after a severe solar storm created perfect conditions

NASA lay-offs and Chinese ambition are changing the space power balance, writes Chris Stokel-Walker

Believed to have crashed into the sea off PNG's Manus Island, the rare interstellar meteor was one of the first ever documented, and it has scientists questioning if it could be artificially made.

The speeding C/2022 E3 (ZTF) and its icy tail will not be visible from most parts of Australia until 5 February – and won’t be visible again from Earth for a long, long time

A faked meteorite crater in a school car park, concocted to promote a science "discovery day", is so well executed it sparks alarm on social media.

Astrophysicist expects people will find more debris in the area ‘over the coming weeks to months to even years’

Astrophysicist Brad Tucker says he often gets calls from people who think they’ve found space junk but the scorched metal found by two farmers is ‘very real’