Watch news in a minute for a summary of MASSIVE 180-foot space rock could make its first-ever close approach to Earth today.

Virgin Galactic has made its first journey into suborbital space carrying passenger on board the aircraft. Watch…

Since the 1980s astronomers have been aware that Saturn is losing its rings, the big question is why and how long before they are all gone

NASA’s Hubble snapped a new image of a mysterious object located approximately 390 million light years away from Earth.

Here is a list of when you will see full moons this year, from pink moons to worm moons, and a very rare treat – a blue moon!

Did you miss the planetary alignment yesterday? Worry not because we have some pictures and videos of this rare event

Get ready to witness an exciting astronomical event on the evening of 28 March because five planets are set to align

The asteroid, named 2023 DZ2, is estimated to be 40 to 70 metres, wide, roughly the size of the Parthenon.

A first in history – two pairs of black holes in two separate dwarf galaxies are on a collision course; they will merge and become one

A Japanese astronomer has caught a meteorite crashing into the moon using cameras to monitor this; the crater could be around 12 meters

A RARE green comet last seen 50 000 years ago will be visible in South Africa THIS WEEK, and here is when you can see it

South Africans are getting the chance to see a comet tonight and the South African Astronomical Observatory shares when and how.

A new satellite image released by NASA has caused a buzz on social media as the Sun appears to have an adorable smile.

‘Taking a rocket up to the Space Station’: Hollywood star Tom Cruise could be the first actor to shoot in space!

The International Meteor Organization said there were nearly 800 eyewitness reports of the ‘meteor’ all the way from Scotland to London.

NASA is studying planet 55 Cancri e which is so close to its star that its clouds rain lava and its atmosphere may vaporize daily.

NASA scientists decided it would be a great idea to launch human nudes into space in the hopes of attracting alien life across the galaxies.

NASA’s decision to hire theologians in an attempt to assess how humans will react to the discovery of aliens has received mixed reactions.

South Africa and Russia have announced a new joint space project. It will be based in the North West. Not that luxurious, but we’ll take it!

You’ll definitely want to spend some time looking up at the sky tonight! The International Space Station will be visible from SA.

A Canadian woman is thanking her lucky stars after she escaped unharmed after a meteor hit a pillow whilst she was sleeping…

Grimes is on the rebound! The musician is joking that she wants to colonise one of Jupiter’s moons following her split from Elon Musk.

‘District 9 part 2 the shrimp are back!’: Social media users were quick on the uptake following a strange black circle ‘hovering’ over Pretoria.

From Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep and Tyler Perry, ‘Don’t Look Up’ features a range of Hollywood A-listers.

Bright lights and the big city: This is what Johannesburg and parts of the West and East Rand in Gauteng look like from space.

An amazing video, taken from aboard the International Space Station, shows what an aurora over South Africa looks like.

South Africa has been chosen as the base of a new space company due to its highly skilled engineers and data scientists.

Social media is still abuzz after a meteor-like object which has since been identified as a bolide, was spotted in the Gauteng skies on Tuesday.

From sharing images from space of Venice and the Dubai golf club, Nasa astronaut, Shane Kimbrough also shared one of what Cape Town looks like at night.

Since Amazon founder Jeff Bezos recently ‘penisrocketed’ to space, people have had a ball of a time coming up with hilarious Tweets.

Wally Funk has spent the past 60 years trying to find a way into space after the Woman in Space Programme was shut down in 1961.

Virgin Group billionaire Richard Branson has become the first person to reach space using his own space craft, the Virgin Galactic.

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said that he has already sold all his other houses to fund a Mars colony.

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope also doubles up as a birthday photographer these days. Here’s how to find your starry birthday pic.

Christie’s is selling a bottle of space wine for R14.4 million, The Petrus 2000 vintage spent 14 months in orbiting the earth.

The South African National Space Agency shared satellite images of the Cape Town fire. More than 600 hectares was destroyed by the blaze.

A special cargo of wine has made its way home all the way from the International Space Station.

One step closer to Mars!

A space race of a different kind has begun between Russia and the US, and this time it’s to be the first country to shoot a movie in space.

Hot Neptunes are so rare that astronomers even refer to the area close to a star as a Neptune desert.

The US space agency has just spent six years and R373-million to ensure its next astronauts can have the best possible toilet experience.

The study presents some new insights into how the stuff of life becomes incorporated into planets and stars.

Researchers want to study every square inch of planet Earth. The problem is that some areas are challenging for humans to get to in order to monitor.

Volunteers around the world are needed to sort through images collected by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) in search of alien life.

Collaboration with NASA takes Estée Lauder’s new product launch to undreamed of heights 400km above the Earth.

Scientists have confirmed that the sun is officially nine months into a new solar weather cycle.

Resembling a butterfly with its symmetrical structure, beautiful colours, and intricate patterns, it appears to float and flutter across the sky.

The Delta Aquariids and Alpha Capricornids meteor showers will peak on Wednesday 29 July. Here’s how and when to view it.

Tiny Iris is no bigger than a shoebox and weighs less than a small dog. But she’s taking on a big, bold mission to the moon.

Introducing Eau de Space: A kickstarter was recently launched for a new fragrance called Eau de Space to bring the smell of space to Earth.

Oumuamua is about 274 metres long and travelled through space for millions of years before entering the solar system.

The full annular solar eclipse, also known as June’s ‘Ring of Fire’ eclipse, will be visible from parts of Africa and Asia. Here’s what you need to know.

Perseverance will seek signs of ancient life and could pave the way for a manned mission.

Tonight’s Full Strawberry Moon brings a penumbral lunar eclipse to mark the start of eclipse season. Each season lasts from 31 to 37 days; here’s what to expect.

The Eta Aquarid meteor shower peaks tonight 5 May, from around 22:00 as Earth moves through the orbit of Halley’s Comet. You could see up to 40 streaks per hour.

Night owls, are you ready? The Lyrids Meteor shower will be visible from 16 to 25 April, and will peak on Tuesday 21 April 2020.

The universe has many mysteries that still remain to be uncovered – and new technologies will help us to solve them over the next 50 years.

No matter how elegant your theory is, experimental data will have the last word. Observations of the retrograde motion of the planets were fundamental to the Copernican revolution, in which the sun replaced Earth at the centre of the solar system.

November’s Taurid meteor shower – which peaks between 5 and 7 November 2019 – is known as the most long-lasting meteor shower of the year.

Are we alone in the universe? It comes down to whether intelligence is a probable outcome of natural selection, or an improbable fluke.

NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir will take a 6.5-hour spacewalk outside the International Space Station to replace a battery charge/discharge unit.

The South African National Space Agency (SANSA) made three volunteer positions available for their ‘take-over’ trip to Antarctica.

Dark matter, by its very nature, is unseen. We cannot observe it with telescopes, and nor have particle physicists had any luck detecting it via experiments.

A large asteroid is headed our way and will pass at approximately 51 500 kilometres per hour on Saturday 14 September.

A rare black moon is gracing the skies tonight to kick-start the next phase of the monthly lunar cycle.

Conditions are not ideal but South African stargazers do have some chance of enjoying the Perseid Meteor Shower this coming week.

The black super new moon appears on 31 July, when both a black moon and a super new moon will occur at the same time. But we won’t be able to see it.

The Delta Aquariids meteor shower is visible between 12 July to 23 August each year, but peaks during late July.

Stargazers enjoyed a spectacular partial eclipse of the Moon on Tuesday night. We’ve collected some of the best photos of the moon all it’s celestial beauty.

Unfortunately, the solar eclipse won’t be visible from South Africa. However, it’s such a spectacular event that we’ve rounded up the best webcasts. Watch it live here.

The Eta Aquariid meteor shower peaks on Monday morning between 3:00 and dawn.

Night owls, are you ready?

Well, that was a pretty bright moon! Savour that moment; it was the last supermoon of the year.

A spectacular cosmic ballet played out over our night skies on Sunday. Here’s the best of what you missed from the Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse.

Did you miss the Geminids Meteor Shower on Friday? Well, we’ve got the greatest footage from across the world. It really was breathtaking!

The Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) and Gaia recently identified a runaway star moving forward in time and subsequently going into the past, back to the supernova remnant.

Truly, this was a sight to behold. Here’s some of the best footage from the Leonids Meteor Shower, as captured across the world.

If you’ve not heard of the Flat Earth Society, you haven’t missed much. In fact, you’re probably a few brain cells better off.

The South African A-lister will have the daring experience of sipping on the new Grand Cordon Stellar on-board a zero-gravity flight with Usain Bolt. We say ‘space’, you know what we mean.

The spacecraft is the only NASA probe in history to be named after a living person – 91-year-old solar physicist Eugene Parker, who first described the solar wind in 1958.

Perseids Meteor Shower is coming this weekend: No other shower can match its 70 meteor-an-hour frequency, and here’s how you can see it.

If you missed it…

Not able to see the lunar eclipse? Catch the wonderous spectacle here.

A red moon and a red planet on the same night. Make sure you don’t miss out on this.

The promise of lifeforms in Mars may be a reality. Scientists have found an underground lake that stretches 20km on the Red Planet.

This is the perfect guide on all you need to know about the three types of lunar eclipses if you’re going to be viewing this celestial event in your city on 27 July.

Views for days!

It’s going to be stunning.

A what?

A beautiful cosmic ballet