All news on the topic: Space

Britons’ eyes went skyward this evening as the most significant solar eclipse in 27 years graced UK skies.

Hundreds of people queued up outside shops across London for hours in the hope of buying glasses to watch the solar eclipse safely.

The spacecraft rushing to the rescue of an aging and sinking NASA telescope has run into its own problem.

A US-Russian crew returned to Earth from the International Space Station early Sunday morning after 241 days on the International Space Station.

Secret documents from a series of clandestine Russian-Chinese military forums reveal a joint plan to defeat Elon Musk’s Starlink and a weapons development partnership far deeper than either country will admit.

The Australian Space Agency has said the six so-called “space balls” found in north Queensland were likely from a “foreign rocket body” that had recently re-entered the atmosphere after being in orbit.

A three-armed spacecraft rocketed into orbit Friday to rescue a NASA telescope that’s in danger of crashing back to Earth.

In Donald Trump’s first term, the president called an aide into his study off the Oval Office to assign a new target.

Tourism and fishing associations in Shetland have voiced alarm and concern about the plans, while campaigners condemn space companies as “litter louts".

Chilling audio has revealed Apollo 12 astronauts saw mysterious “streaks of light” while trying to sleep in space, according to a new UFO file dump ordered by President Trump.

A Nasa official has said he’ll ’be anxious’ as Artemis II returns to earth after midnight tonight.

SpaceX prepares for next test flight of Starship — the most powerful rocket in history

Approximately 20% of the employees at the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration are expected to leave the space agency, a NASA spokesperson stated on Friday.

Dramatic pressure drops don’t make bodies pop, they make them shut down.

Kosmos 482, with a weight of 500kg, was intended to land on Venus in the 1970s, but it failed to leave orbit due to a rocket malfunction.

Americium-241 costs one fifth per watt of power compared to plutonium-238.

India’s POEM-4 experimental module disintegrated and descended into the Indian Ocean to prevent turning into space debris.

Uncrewed Spectrum test rocket’s failure seconds after blast-off said to have produced extensive data nonetheless

Two astronauts stuck in space for nearly nine months are finally on their way back to Earth.

A group of 18 low Earth orbit satellites was launched aboard the Long March-8 Y6 carrier rocket from the Hainan commercial spacecraft launch site in south China’s Hainan Province in the early hours of Wednesday.

Scientists have toyed with the idea of nuclear rockets since the 1950s. Will they finally become a reality?

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.

Villagers were shocked to see a 500kg ring of partially burnt metal fall from the sky in Kenya.

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