ExoMars, the European Space Agency’s mission to Mars, is at a crucial stage.



Back in March, the Schiaparelli lander started its journey to Mars from Baikonur in Kazakstan attached to the Trace Gas Orbiter....

NASA is counting down to their OSIRIS-REx mission (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer), aimed at bringing samples back from a near-Earth asteroid. ...

The extraordinary mission of “ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft”tp://rosetta.esa.int/' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>spacecraft” around comet 67P is nearly over: on 30 September the craft w

ill crash land on its...

NASA celebrated a great victory on Tuesday as its spacecraft Juno finally reached Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system.



After a five-year trek across 2.8bn km, the probe finally began orbiting the fifth...

The Rio Tinto river snakes through the Spanish countryside for 100 kilometres, a dark, blood-red stain of acid water and rusty-looking rocks that scientists love to study. Both ESA and NASA experts regularly...

David Saint-Jacques is booked on a Russian Soyuz rocket that blasts off for the International Space Station in November 2018

‘A Beautiful Planet’ is a documentary that offers a fresh and breathtaking perspective of the Earth seen from the International Space Station.



Narrated by Jennifer Lawrence, the film is the work of IMAX veteran...

The European Space Agency is poised to launch the third satellite in the Copernicus programme called Sentinel-3 later this month.



The Sentinels are a fleet of satellites designed to deliver a...

The United Arab Emirates is working to send a probe to orbit Mars. The UAE Space Agency has called its mission “Al Amal” Hope and has now introduced it to the public. Various events have been organised in Dubai to give...

The Chinese craft is now in the South Pole-Aitken Basin and will try to collect two kilos of Moon rock and debris to bring back to Earth.

The latest and largest of the space agency's Earth Explorer satellites was launched into orbit from California onboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

The European Space Agency (ESA), Arianespace, and French space agency CNES are in the final stretch of preparations for Ariane 6's inaugural launch.

The two trainees are expected to be certified as astronauts with JAXA, Japan’s space agency, as early as November.

The US moon mission is also the first ever to be made by a private company.

The Peregrine 1 mission will be the first-ever to be made by a private company and the first lunar launch in more than five decades by Americans.

NASA's latest deep space mission will analyse a metal-rich asteroid to unlock a greater understanding of how rocky planets like our own were formed.

The data gleaned by the space mission will likely help scientists with any asteroid-deflection efforts in the future.

NASA’s moon mission finally got underway in a year jam packed with major steps forward in space exploration.

The uncrewed test flight aims to ensure NASA's new Space Launch System is capable of putting astronauts back on the Moon for the first time in 50 years.

The uncrewed test flight - called off for a second time - aims to ensure NASA's new SLS rocket is capable of putting astronauts back on the Moon.

A fuel leak and engine problem scuppered Monday's planned launch but engineers are hoping to get the issue fixed in time for a second try on Saturday afternoon.

The Artemis 1 mission is a crucial unmanned test flight, which comes ahead of the crewed missions Artemis 2 and 3.

The Artemis 1 mission is a crucial unmanned test flight, which comes ahead of the crewed missions Artemis 2 and 3.

A helicopter snagged a falling space rocket in an attempt to reuse it – but it ultimately dropped it in the ocean.