What if plastic pollution could be turned into fuel that could propel a rocket into orbit? This British start-up may have found a way.

A Saturn-sized exoplanet might have been discovered by astronomers using Nasa's Chandra X-Ray Telescope.

China's Mars Rover, Zhurong left its module for the first time for a successful drive around on the surface of the Red Planet.

A British firm has won a €280;000 European Space Agency contract to further develop technology to extract oxygen from moon dust and rocks.

A British firm has won a €280,000 European Space Agency contract for technology to extract oxygen from moon dust and rocks.

“20 years ago, nobody would have ever imagined the dimension of what the internet brings today for daily life and I think space is in a similar situation,” Josef Aschbacher, director general of the European Space Agency, told The Big...

The UK company that designed the modular underwater habitats says they could be used for everything from marine studies and tourism to security.

The UK company that designed the modular underwater habitats says they could be used for everything from marine studies and tourism to security.

India is poised to enter a new era in space technology with the Space Docking Experiment (SpaDEX), set for launch on December 30, 2024. Watch this report for more details!

Prada and Axiom Space have unveiled a specially designed spacesuit for NASA's Artemis III mission, marking the first time a woman will walk on the moon.

SpaceX, a prolific launch provider, has become synonymous with the commercial space industry. Elon Musk's company - with around 380 launches of the Falcon 9 family of reusable rockets to date - is the clear leader. But competition is...

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New pictures from NASA of one of Jupiter's moons, Europa, suggest that the chemical conditions for life may exist t
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A winged spaceship designed to take tourists on excursions beyond Earth's atmosphere broke up during a test flight Friday over the Mojave Desert, killing a pilot in...

The NASA mission, Gemini VIII, was the first space mission to accomplish a docking with another space vehicle, an unmanned Agena stage. While docked, a Gemini spacecraft thruster malfunction caused a near-fatal crash of the craft, but...

The second Geostationary Scientific Satellite (GEOS-2) is scheduled for launching by NASA for the European Space Agency (ESA) from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The GE0S-2 will study the magnetosphere, that region of near-earth space...

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1. Solar flare captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory satellite

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The Hubble Space Telescope has produced pictures showing four newly discovered proto-planetary disks around young stars in the Orion Nebula. Gas and dust disks, long...

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In a rare celestial spectacle, two comets have been observed plunging into the Sun's atmosphere in close succession, on June 1 and 2. The two comets are known as Kreutz Sun-Grazers, a class of comets that pass within about 50,000 km...

Animated film of Voyager 1's encounter with the planet Saturn and its moons Titan, Tethys, Mimas and Rhea.

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NASA rover sends back first colour picture of Mars

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