Watch Comet 96P/Macholz brighten as it flies by the sun in these time-lapses captured by the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) and Solar and Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) ...

A newly discovered green comet tracked by telescopes has likely broken apart as it swung by the sun, dashing hopes of a naked-eye spectacle. Comet SWAN, hailing from the Oort Cloud ...

Ronnie Scott, who has died aged 107, volunteered from Buenos Aires in the Second World War for the Fleet Air Arm, was one of ...

Pons-Brooks and Jupiter were seen by NASA's Solar TErrestrial Relations Observatory-A (STEREO-A). Credit: Space.com | NASA ...

A second US aircraft carrier is operating in Mideast waters ahead of the next round of talks between Iran and the United States over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear programme, satellite photos ...

NASA's Apollo 13 mission, where disaster struck and an oxygen tank exploded, we take a look at some of the most harrowing space-related accidents ...

Police were called at 2.23pm on Saturday to a report that a light aircraft had crashed in Whitecliff Bay Holiday Park.

Credit: marko_n via Getty Images In the mid-1950s, while investigating a series of mysterious crashes of the de Havilland ...

Julius Caesar's two invasions of Britain took place in 55 and 54 BC. Following the Roman conquest of Britain in AD 43, it ...

Members of a Hertfordshire drugs gang who dropped cocaine packages from an aircraft have been for a total of 47 years.

Amir Daftari is a Newsweek reporter based in London, specializing in global affairs with a focus on the Middle East. He joined Newsweek in 2024 from the United Nations and has previously worked at ...

Modern aircraft windows are composed of strong materials ... In early aviation, this wasn’t just theoretical. The de Havilland Comet, the world’s first commercial jetliner introduced in ...