Sub-audible infrasonic waves from the meteor which exploded over a remote region of Russia last week were recorded 15,000km away in Antarctica.

A popular Canadian astronaut orbiting the earth 16 times a day is beaming his “Space Kitchen” cooking show back down to his fans.

A stunning new map of the surface of Mercury has revealed the planet to be a "fascinating, dynamic and complex world".

A 46-metre cosmic rock has hurtled safely past Earth this morning.

Astronomers believe they may have discovered the youngest black hole in the Milky Way galaxy.

An asteroid which is to hurtle close to the Earth tomorrow may experience a seismic jolt as it passes through our planet’s gravitational field, scientists suggest.

Even though wheelchairs may fold up for easy transport in a car or plane, their wheels don't get smaller. That's where the Morph Folding Wheelchair Wheel comes in.

An ancient asteroid about half a football field in diameter will hurtle just 28,000 kilometres past Earth next week - but details are sketchy.

A solar "superstorm" could knock out Earth's communications satellites, cause dangerous power surges and disrupt crucial navigation aids, a report says.

There are only 7 northern white rhinos left in the world and 4 of them live in the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya. Protecting them and the other rhinos, elephants, leopards and other animals in the reserve is a particularly hard job for the 190 rangers.

Backpacks on mussels? Researchers at the University of Iowa attached wireless sensor packages to Mississippi river mussels that measure how open their shells are.

A NASA astronaut has today tweeted out a picture of Mt Taranaki as seen from the International Space Station.

Getting sleep will be one of the biggest challenges facing astronauts in any manned mission to Mars, according to a study of six men.