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Firefly Aerospace succeeded in its first attempt to land on the moon with its uncrewed Blue Ghost spacecraft on Sunday, kicking off a two-week research mission as a handful of private firms compete to reach the frontlines of a global moon race. The size of a compact car, the four-legged Blue Ghost carried 10 scientific payloads as it touched down at around 3:35am ET (0835 GMT) near an ancient volcanic vent on Mare Crisium, a large basin in the northeast corner of the moon’s Earth-facing side.

Pop star Katy Perry and journalists Gayle King and Lauren Sanchez, who is also billionaire Jeff Bezos’ fiancée, are set to blast off into space on a Blue Origin rocket, marking the first all-female flight crew in more than six decades.

NASA has reduced the likelihood that a massive "city killer" asteroid could collide with Earth in the upcoming years.

NASA considers Asteroid 2024 YR4 to be the most likely massive space object to collide with Earth, posing a greater threat than the previous threat, "God of Chaos" 99942 Apophis.

There would be only seconds to prepare before the fireball hits.

A NASA scientist has forecasted the potential impact location on Earth of a massive asteroid that might collide with the planet in seven years.

Trading Crew Dragon capsules will shave several weeks off the astronauts’ return to Earth.

NASA is making emergency preparations to deal with a ‘city-killing’ asteroid after the odds of it smashing into Earth continue to rise.

Rockets propelled by nuclear reactors could slash the time it takes us to get to Mars.

A rocket launched by Elon Musk’s SpaceX company exploded shortly after lift-off, showering fiery debris through the air.

SpaceX’S Starship is preparing for its seventh test flight next week, which will see the rocket attempt to deploy fake satellites in space.

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams originally planned to go to space for just eight days but got stuck on the ISS when their Boeing Starliner spacecraft started experiencing problems.

Nasa have made history after their Parker Solar aircraft survived the closest-ever approach to the Sun.

The fastest spacecraft ever is preparing to make the closest approach to the sun on Tuesday to get a better understanding of how it works.

Neither NASA nor its Russian counterpart agency ROSCOSMOS are yet to disclose why it was that the four astronauts were whisked to hospital after they touched down in Florida today

Nasa’s Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, who flew Starliner amid technical failures, will remain at ISS until February

The two astronauts were only meant to be in space for eight days, but due to technical issues they won’t return until 2025. Do they have enough supplies for such a stint, how are they coping mentally and what is day-to-day life like up there?

NASA’s ongoing flight tests of the Boeing Starliner manned spacecraft mark another milestone in its journey towards independence from Russian Soyuz services.

The images, captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope on 5-6 January, 2024, provide a view of both hemispheres of the planet.

A Japanese rocket launched to send an experimental government satellite into space exploded just seconds after take-off, turning its launch pad into a giant fireball

NASA's SpaceX Crew-7 splashed down off the coast of Florida in a Dragon spacecraft Tuesday morning after spending about six months aboard the International Space Station

Orbiting 400km above the Earth's surface won't stop intrepid astronauts from voting as NASA figure out a way those in the International Space Station can still cast their ballots

Three NASA astronauts, including the second-ever Black woman to be assigned a long station mission, and a Russian astronaut have finally started their journey to the International Space Station

With nearly 15% of Brits surviving on less than five hours of sleep every night, gardening expert Tiffany Dent has revealed how aloe vera could boost the quality of your shut-eye