The Hubble Space Telescope has captured images of the disintegration of an asteroid into as many as ten smaller fragments for the first time.
Channel 4 is to broadcast footage of the 2001 terrorist attack on World Trade Centre towers in New York recorded from the International Space Station (ISS) as part of a new documentary.
The team of Nasa scientists tasked with sorting through the vast amounts of data produced by Nasa’s Kepler telescope have identified 715 previously unknown planets beyond our solar system.
NASA’s Mars-orbiting spacecraft and found the “strongest indication” that liquid water may exist today on the Red Planet.
NASA’s Curiosity rover has captured its first images of earth from the red planet, with the earth appearing as a bright light in the Martian sky.