The 2011 Tohoku earthquake, which caused the tsunami behind the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear meltdown, disrupted more than man-made structures. The European Space Agency's GOCE satellite measured a significant change in Earth's gravity after the earthquake before falling out of the sky on November 11th. Read More >>

Just a decade after entering the space race, China is headed to the moon. With the successful launch of a Long March rocket carrying the Chang'e 3 lunar lander earlier this morning, China is attempting to become the third nation in history to land (rather than crash) a spacecraft on the lunar surface. Read More >>

Russia's SAR-400 robotic cosmonaut—which bears some significant similarity to NASA's Robonaut—is in practice for its first ever space walk. But don't worry, because it will be controlled from afar, just like in this picture. Read More >>

There may well be more than 60 billion habitable planets littering the Milky Way, but it's virtually impossible to make use of that figure. Instead, how about this picture, which shows you how many planets are within 60 light-years of Earth. Read More >>

Space junk is a serious problem: it threatens satellites and spacecraft, and can plummet unpredictably to earth. Australia's Murchison Widefield Array is a high-sensitivity radio telescope that tracks space debris as small as 1 meter across, by observing how the objects reflect FM signals from Australian radio stations. It's listening to pop music from space. Read More >>

Yesterday, comet Ison flew close to the Sun, and many sources reported its death. Now, though, some scientists are claiming that it, or at least some part of it, may have survived its journey. Read More >>

It might look more like an engine from an ageing car than a piece of engineering fit for space, but this machine was a pioneering piece of apparatus that allowed astronauts to experiment with fluids in space. Read More >>

Comet ISON is inching ever closer to the Sun, and it'll get incredibly close later on today. In the meantime, though, you can watch its most recent progress in this video from NASA. Read More >>

No, this is not a photoshop. You are looking at a fresh tomato -- a cosmomato? A tomatonaut? -- floating in space, orbiting at 4.791 miles per second, 230 miles above your heads. Why the hell is there a tomato in space? Read More >>

Congratulations to all aspiring crypto-currency cosmonauts out there; you'll soon be able to use Bitcoins, everyone's favourite pseudomonetary bubble, to book flights on Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic space boats. Read More >>

In space, no-one can hear you scream, but Sandra Bullock's cries in top-notch sci-fi flick Gravity don't fall entirely on deaf ears. A new short companion-piece film to go along with Alfonso Cuarón's movie has been released, giving some insight into what was going on back on Earth. Keep in mind, some mild spoilers follow, so you've been warned. Read More >>

Where were you when the ISS launched its first module in November of 1998? Some of us watched, others were in school, still other weren't even alive yet. Either way, it's hard to believe that today is the International Space Station—the largest cooperative science project ever—is celebrating its 15h birthday today. Read More >>

Your coolest secondary school science project probably involved some baking soda and a paper mâché volcano, right? A little chemical reaction and a big mess? Well, kids these days are smarter than you. They're building satellites and sending them to space. Read More >>

The rumble of power just got stronger and more insistent as we heard the countdown in Russian through our headsets and then, "Pusk." Liftoff. Read More >>

Do not adjust your monitor: Mars hasn't really been given a rainbow paint job. In fact, this image is a colour-coded topography showing the heights and depths of the planet's Ismeniae Fossae region. Read More >>