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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Autumn 2025 issue of ROOM Space Journal has just been published, delivering another wide-ranging exploration of the ideas, technologies and policies shaping humanity’s future in space. On the ...

Sand scooped up from the Bagnold Dunes on Mars by NASA’s Curiosity rover contains a number of organic molecules including benzoic acid, ammonia, phosphoric acid, phenol and several nitrogen-bearing ...

UK-based horizontal launch company Astraius says it on track for a first launch in spring 2024 from Prestwick Spaceport in Scotland after signing deals with two key suppliers for its innovative rocket ...

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 ...