World News

Europe and Russia's mission to Mars

The ExoMars mission blasted off seven months ago abord a Russian rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

19 October 2016

World News

Is there life on Mars? Landing of ExoMars probe today may tell us more

Destination: The Red Planet.

19 October 2016

China

A giant leap forward? China embarks on its longest space mission to date

China's Shenzhou-11 docks at the Tiangong 2 space lab in what could be a giant leap forward for its space programme.

19 October 2016

World News

All you need to know about Europe's new mission to Mars

Mars has long piqued people’s interest – from science fiction tales of Martians to Elon Musk’s goal of one day colonising the planet.

18 October 2016

World News

ExoMars arrives at the Red Planet

ExoMars is a mission of firsts – if all goes to plan then this will be Europe’s first controlled landing on Mars, and this is the first mission of its kind to go directly in search of signs of…

18 October 2016

World News

ExoMars has Red Planet in its sights - within days!

Landing on Mars is notoriously difficult.

14 October 2016

World

Mission accomplished: Rosetta crash crowns ESA's historic achievement

The European Space Agency's Rosetta mission has come to a close with success after crash landing hits target

30 September 2016

Sci-Tech

'Commencing countdown' astronauts prepare for blast off

French ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet is going for a swim, but this is one dip with a difference. Pesquet is taking his last training session in NASA's Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory at Johnson Space Cente

29 September 2016

World News

Water on Jupiter's moon Europa? But why should I care?

27 September 2016

World News

Microbes and the meaning of life?

Researchers in Japan are hoping microbes from Space could hold the secret to the origins of life on Earth.

21 September 2016

Argentina

'Giant meteorite' unearthed in northern Argentina

An excavating team in Argentina have unearthed a rock weighing over 30 tonnes it is thought could be one of the world’s largest meteorites.

14 September 2016

USA

Queen singer Freddie Mercury honoured on 70th birthday

An asteroid has been named after the late Freddie Mercury.

8 September 2016

Sci-Tech

Philae: a space odyssey with a happy end

After nearly two years missing in action, Rosetta's small lander Philae has finally been located in a shadowed spot on the comet 67-P - also known as Churyumov Gerasimenko - just three weeks before th

8 September 2016

World News

See the first images of Jupiter from Juno

They were taken last Saturday when the probe had completed the first of 36 orbital fly-bys of the massive planet.

3 September 2016

USA

Is anyone out there? Mysterious radio signal sparks alien speculation

A mysterious radio signal picked up by a Russian telescope was probably not sent by aliens but astronomers in California are checking it out, anyway.

31 August 2016

World News

Earth-like planet on our cosmic doorstep

Just 40 trillion kilometres away – not so far in astronomical terms – a potentially habitable planet has been found by scientists.

24 August 2016

Sci-Tech

NASA's latest launch - to bring back 'scientific treasure'

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…

24 August 2016

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The Perseid meteor shower at its peak

The annual Perseid meteor shower peaked on Thursday night into early Friday.

12 August 2016

USA

Commercial space tourism moves closer to reality as Virgin Galactic gets FAA licence

Richard Branson’s dream of commercial space tourism is a step closer to reality.

2 August 2016

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Growing food in space: A tale of rats, algae and tomatoes

Is it possible to produce food to eat and air to breathe while in space?

19 July 2016