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The northern parts of the UK & Ireland have been treated some amazing displays of the Aurora Borealis - here's how to get the best views of the Northern Lights.

NASA has released two stunning images of the world's newest, and as yet unnamed, island - located in the Red Sea near Yemen.

Looking forward to the snow this December? Well, according to scientists at the Met Office we're not likely to see much of it this year.

NASA has today revealed the technologies it has developed for the Space Program which help us (and Santa Claus).

It sounds like something out of a Bond film but the United States' Department of Defence's Phoenix Program has plans to harvest parts of decommissioned satellites, while they are still in orbit.

Here we go again. An out of service German satellite is hurtling towards Earth and may re-enter its atmosphere this weekend, according to the German Aerospace Centre. Last month small pieces of NASA's Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) crash-landed somewhere in the Pacific Ocean.

NASA, working with the Joint Space Operations Center at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, believe they have figured out where the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite, UARS, crash landed on Saturday morning.

NASA and the U.S. Joint Space Operations Center (USSTRATCOM) have revealed the location where large parts of the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) crashed landed in Canada.

"NASA’s decommissioned Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite fell back to Earth between 11:23 p.m. EDT Friday, Sept. 23 and 1:09 a.m....

NASA's Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite has begun to fall to Earth; if you are curious then you can download these apps.

NASA's defunct Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) is due to re-enter Earth's atmosphere sometime between today and this Saturday, although scientists are unable to accurately predict where it will eventually land.

Taking just over a minute to travel from North America to Antarctica this amazing time-lapse video gives a rare view of what astronauts on the International Space Station see of Earth.

The blip age may not have died with the destruction of the Hindenburg. Could we be about to see the return of Airships to the skies.

NASA has warned that one of its defunct satellites will crash into the Earth's atmosphere sometime over the next six weeks but it doesn't know when or where.

NASA has released some of the most detailed images of the Apollo Moon landing sites ever recorded. The image show everything from debris left behind by Apollo astronauts to boot tracks.

Google's Crisis Response Unit is now focused on tracking Hurricane Irene as it hits the Eastern United States. The search company has released a custom map tracking the storm's path.

They are over 100 miles wide, over a mile high, and are regular occurrences in Phoenix, Az. These clouds, called Haboobs, happen in arid areas of the world, most commonly the Sahara desert, the Arabian Peninsula, the Central United Stats, affecting states as diverse as Kuwait and Iraq, to Texas and New Mexico.

NASA has released an official free app for Google Android devices. The app has been generally well received by Android users although many, including ourselves, have been complaining that the app is slow and buggy on some Android devices

This storm is 800 times bigger than the surface area of the Earth, covers 4 billion square kilometres, and is so long it has etched a planet-wide scar encircling Saturn's Northern Hemisphere.

The European Space Agency live tweeted a dramatic space craft re-entry sequence which saw its ATV-2 Space Freighter, Johannes Kepler, plunge in to the Pacific Ocean.