The scene lasts barely a minute, yet it captures something oddly truthful about the Apollo era. Not the engineering itself – ...

Inspired by the concept of the Overview Effect, his focus turned to how the Earth must appear from the other side of the ...

But far less attention is given to the psychological and moral inheritance humanity may carry into the Solar System. Will we ...

If you ask planetary astronomers where the solar system ends, they will say well past the planets, well past the bright band of the Kuiper Belt where Pluto resides, and still further to a shadowy ...

For his latest series, Pilgrimage of Light, Mark travelled to hard-to-reach wilderness locations to project galactic images, altering landscapes while he photographed them. When we look at far away ...

Spacetech start-up Skyroot Aerospace announced last week that it has successfully tested Dhawan-1, India’s first privately developed fully cryogenic rocket engine. Named in honour of Indian rocket ...

The ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO), which has been searching for signature gases in the Martian atmosphere since 2016, has spotted significant amounts of water at Valles Marineris; a ...

Dutch-based space research firm SpaceBorn United is targeting a ground-breaking space mission in the first half 2023 that will see the fertilisation of rodent embryos in artificial gravity followed by ...

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have detected water and carbon monoxide (CO2) in a massive galaxy nearly 12.88 billion light years from Earth; this is the ...

Sierra Nevada Corp’s Dream Chaser spaceplane, a cargo spacecraft whose design is reminiscent of NASA’s space shuttle Orbiter vehicle, is to begin launching and landing in Florida in 2022, the company ...

Located roughly 27,000 light-years from the Sun, the centre of our galaxy is dominated by a supermassive black hole 4.3 million times as massive as the Sun. Although scientists had long suspected that ...

Britain says it plans to develop a number of initiatives to help protect the increasingly crowded near-Earth orbital environment. Its ‘Plan for Space Sustainability’ includes a review of secondary ...