Space

Space: the final frontier. From the deep reaches of the James Webb Space Telescope to the small satellites hovering above Earth, to passing meteors and searches for alien life and human missions to the moon, NationalWorld will cover it all. Bringing you expert information, the latest news and breaking stories on space exploration.

Halley's Comet in 1986 (Image: Liaison)

Halley's Comet reaches the furthest distance from the Sun this weekend

This screen grab made from video footage from ISRO via AFPTV taken on July 14, 2023 shows an Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) rocket carrying the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft (Image: ISRO/AFPTV/AFP via Getty Images)

Chandrayaan-3 now circled the Earth after its historic moon mission

A picture obtained on December 14, 2013 from Iran's ISNA news agency allegedly shows the launch of the Pajohesh (research) rocket containing a live space monkey named Fargam (Auspicious) (Image: -/AFP via Getty Images)

Iran sends animals into space as it prepares for human missions

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is shown in a clean room at the Astrotech Space Operations facility near the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on 8 Dec 2022. DSOC’s gold-capped flight laser transceiver can be seen, near center, attached to the spacecraft. (Image: NASA/Ben Smegelsky)

Nasa receives a message from 10 million miles away

Artist's impression showing the HH 1177 system (Image: PA)

Astronomers find first planet-forming disk beyond the Milky Way

An artist’s rendering of the view from LHS 3154b towards its tiny host star (Image: Penn State)

Scientists discover a planet that shouldn't exist

A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft launches on the Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station with NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley onboard at Launch Complex 39A May 30, 2020, at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida. (Photo by SpaceX via Getty Images)

SpaceX rocket punctures a hole in the ionosphere

A Long March 5 rocket carrying China's Chang'e-5 lunar probe launches from the Wenchang Space Center on China's southern Hainan Island on November 24, 2020 Picture: STR/AFP via Getty Images

'Out of control' Chinese rocket causes 'unusual' crater on the moon

‘Cannibal’ solar storm: Geomagnetic flares explained, when is it heading to Earth? Picture: NASA via Getty Images

Today's solar storm may cause internet blackouts

The night sky always offers something stunning (Image: YE AUNG THU/AFP via Getty Images)

Astronomical events to watch out for in December 2023

A meteor streaking through the night sky over Myanmar during the Geminid meteor shower (Photo: YE AUNG THU/AFP via Getty Images)

Geminids meteor shower 2023: When does it peak - and viewing tips

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A high energy particle has been detected from the Local Void in space

A photograph of Mars taken by Nasa's Hubble Space Telescope (Picture: Nasa/Getty Images)

UK to join European mission in the hunt for life on Mars

John McFall in zero gravity as he undergoes tests to be sent into space (ESA/Novespace)

British astronaut worried his prosthetic leg could poison the ISS crew

Mouse embryos have been grown in space

First mammal embryos grown on International Space Station

The International Space Station photographed by Expedition 56 crew members from a Soyuz spacecraft after undocking. Picture: NASA/Roscosmos

Nasa detects hundreds of methane gas sources from space station

The M87 supermassive black hole in polarised light, photo courtesy of EHT Collaboration.

World-renowned black hole M87 is losing energy through outward jets

The NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) instrument on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s reveals a portion of the Milky Way’s dense core in a new light. An estimated 500,000 stars shine in this image of the Sagittarius C (Sgr C) region, along with some as-yet unidentified features. A large region of ionized hydrogen, shown in cyan, contains intriguing needle-like structures that lack any uniform orientation.
(Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, and S. Crowe (University of Virginia)).

Webb Telescope snaps picture of 500,000 stars forming in the Milky Way

(Image: Getty Images)

Will the Earth collide with a lost asteroid next year?

Mars (Picture: Nasa/Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Cornell University via Getty Images)

AI powered robot can turn Martian water into oxygen

IVO's revolutionary and highly controversial Quantum Drive (Image: IVO LIMITED)

SpaceX launches first-ever zero-fuel engine into space

(Image: MIGUEL MEDINA/AFP via Getty Images)

A distant dead star is now sending out signs of life

SpaceX on November 18, 2023, carried out the second test launch of Starship, the largest rocket ever built that Elon Musk hopes will one day colonize Mars (Image: DIEGO CRUZ/AFP via Getty Images)

Second Starship launch fails after rocket loses contact with control

In this handout provided by NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS This self-portrait of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows the vehicle at the "Mojave" site (Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS via Getty Images)

Nasa will not be able to contact its Mars robots for two weeks

The International Space Station photographed by Expedition 56 crew members from a Soyuz spacecraft after undocking. Picture: NASA/Roscosmos

How to see the Nasa dropped toolbox orbiting the Earth

The Sun is the star of our solar system (Image: NASA/Solar Dynamics Observatory via Getty Images)

Where would there be life in our solar system?

American astronaut Colonel Frank Borman, Commander of the Apollo 8 mission, leaves 10 Downing Street in London with his wife Susan after a visit to Prime Minister Harold Wilson (Image: Ted West/Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Apollo 8 astronaut Frank Borman dies aged 95

A blue supermoon rises behind the Royal Liver Building. Image: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

Adding bacteria to lunar soil could help us live on the Moon

Artist rendition of space debris (Image: Nationalworld/Kim Mogg)

How the UK Space Agency is battling with space debris

The Milky Way as seen from Earth (Image: MIGUEL MEDINA/AFP via Getty Images)

Astronomers discover a doppelgänger of the Milky Way

ESA Council meeting - November 2023 (Image: ESA)

The ESA launches a project to develop a commercial space capsule

All UK space mission will conduct missions that can't be done on Earth (Image: Getty)

All UK space mission will conduct missions that can't be done on Earth

The Horsehead nebula (Image: ESA)

ESA's Euclid telescope sends back dazzling first images of deep space

The galaxy cluster Abell 2744, with the distant galaxy UHZ1 that formed just 470 million years after the Big Bang. (Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/Ákos Bogdán; Infrared: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/L. Frattare and K. Arcand.)

Oldest ever black hole formed just 470m years after the Big Bang

This photo from 1999 shows a Leonid meteor storm (Photo: JAMAL NASRALLAH/AFP via Getty Images)

Leonids meteor shower 2023: spectacular night sky show this November

How the Apollo missions led to Sir Richard Branson dedicating his life to commercial space travel (credit: Getty Images/Canva)

Who are Virgin Galactic, and what do they do?

STEVE was captured over Cocklawburn Beach by Lee Patterson, appearing much brighter than the aurora.

Steve, the rare Northern Lights phenomenon

The Northern Lights is visible in parts of the UK (Image: Getty)

How to see the aurora borealis in the UK

A Taurid meteor over lake Simcoe, Canada, with the aurora borealis shimmering below, on Nov. 9, 2015. (Image credit: Orchidpoet via Getty Images)

Taurid meteor shower expected this weekend

The International Space Station photographed by Expedition 56 crew members from a Soyuz spacecraft after undocking. Picture: NASA/Roscosmos

The ISS celebrates 23 years in space - everything you need to know

Earth’s Moon is thought to have formed in a tremendous collision. A massive object ― named Theia after the mythological Greek Titan who was the mother of Selene, goddess of the Moon ― smashed into Earth, flinging material into space that became the Moon. Credit: NASA

Mystery 'blobs' inside the Earth may explain how the Moon was made

Solar panels. Picture: Getty Images

Solar panel farms in space are now possible - here's how

The night sky. Picture: Menahem Kahana/AFP via Getty Images

Must see astronomical events in November 2023

The 'incredibly rare' first edition of The Castle of Knowledge (SWNS)

First English astronomy book from 1556 could fetch £10K at auction

Computer generated image (CGI) issued by SaxaVord UK spaceport of a rocket taking off from Lamba Ness in Unst. (Image: SaxaVord UK/PA Wire)

UK Space Agency gives rocket company £3.5m ahead of space launch

Vladimir Putin Photo: Getty

Vladimir Putin sets date for Russia's new space station to launch

An artist's impression of the newfound infrared aurora superimposed on a Hubble Space Telescope photograph of Uranus. (Image: NASA/ESA/M. Showalter (SETI Institute))

Uranus aurora discovery may provide clues to habitable icy worlds

Peter Davisson and Janet Fielding return as The Fifth Doctor and Tegan in Doctor Who spin-off Tales of the TARDIS

Tales of the TARDIS: Doctor Who spin-off cast with Colin Baker

Earth (Picture: NASA/Newsmakers)

The Earth's core is leaking helium-3

Mars’s liquid-metal core seems to be smaller than previous studies suggested (artist’s impression). (Image: Claus Lunau/Science Photo Library)

Mars has an undiscovered layer of molten rock underneath its surface

In this handout provided by NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS This self-portrait of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows the vehicle at the "Mojave" site (Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS via Getty Images)

Curiosity Rover discovers Mars once had 'right conditions' for life

Nasa image of a gamma ray burst

The second largest Gamma Ray Burst reveals basic elements of life

The moon is seen during a partial lunar eclipse in Caracas, on November 19, 2021. (Image: FEDERICO PARRA/AFP via Getty Images)

Partial Lunar Eclipse: date, times and what is the event explained

This picture shows a facility at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in the Gobi desert in northwest China on October 25, 2023. (Image: PEDRO PARDO/AFP via Getty Images)

China sends its youngest crew to its Tiangong space station

The Cosmology Machine 8 has the power of 17,000 home PCs. (Image: Durham University)

Supercomputer delves into how the universe was created

The moon is believed to have been created after a massive collision between the Earth and a Mars-sized object (Picture: Roslan Rahman/AFP via Getty Images)

The Moon is a lot older than originally thought, scientists say