Google Maps satellites have picked up on fly-tipping in one British street – meaning the amount of rubbish is so bad you can actually see it from space. Four mammoth-sized piles of rubbish can be seen on the satellite view
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Mars rover to brave ‘7 minutes of terror’ before landing on Red Planet
NASA's Mars rover Perseverance will face "seven minutes of terror" before landing on the red planet. The space probe will be making its final, self-guided descent to Mars on Thursday, with engineers warning: "Success is never assured." Al Chen, head
NASA sending names to Mars on next mission as space race continues
NASA is giving people the once in a lifetime opportunity to have their names sent to Mars during their next exploration of the Red Planet. The space agency has launched a campaign which allows people to submit their name which
NASA releases stunning photos of galaxies colliding in ultra-rare cosmic event
Scientists at NASA and the European Space Agency have published jaw-dropping photographs of one of the universe's rarest cosmic phenomenon – and they've done it to cheer us all up after the nightmare that was 2020. To usher in the
Helicopter crash sees emergency services scrambled as six passengers missing
The Daily Star’s FREE newsletter is spectacular! Sign up today for the best stories straight to your inbox An urgent search is under way for six people declared missing after their helicopter crashed in the French Alps on Tuesday. The
China gloats with £5bn a year space programme video as UK taxpayers fork out £67m in aid
We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. On Tuesday, Beijing successfully landed a spacecraft on the moon’s surface in the first mission to retrieve
Asteroid ‘size of double-decker bus’ came within 240 miles of Earth on Friday 13
A thirty-foot asteroid skimmed just a few hundred miles above the Pacific Ocean on Friday 13, but it wasn’t spotted until it had already missed us. The potential meteor, named 2020 VT4 by astronomers, is roughly the size of a
Asteroid ‘bigger than the Golden Gate Bridge’ set to collide with Earth’s orbit
An Asteroid bigger than the Golden Gate Bridge is set to collide with Earth’s orbit on Saturday, November 14. The huge space rock, which is being watched by astronomers at NASA, is on track to zip past Earth at a
NASA mission finds ‘300 million Earth-like planets’ that could sustain life
Scientists searching for planets with the potential to sustain life like Earth may have hundreds of millions of options. The Kepler spacecraft, which was launched in March 2009, monitored 150,000 stars in an area in the Milky Way. It looked
Heartbroken wife pays tribute to pilot killed in horror Lake District crash
The Daily Star’s FREE newsletter is spectacular! Sign up today for the best stories straight to your inbox A touching tribute has been paid to a family man 'with an appetite for life' who died in a plane crash. David