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ESA Selects Airbus and OHB to Lead European Space Station Studies
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Help Overlap Zoo Reveal Cosmic Dust
Galaxies, vast collections of billions of stars, gas, and dust held together by gravity, are scattered across the immensity of space. But every so often, a coincidence occurs: Two galaxies line up from our point of view …
NASA Adds New Science Investigations for Moon Base
Editor’s note: This release was updated on Sept. 30, 2026, to correct the name of the DISCO payload. NASA selected three new scientific investigations and their payload suites to advance our knowledge of the Moon and hel…
NASA Awards Contract to Develop 5G Communications for Moon
NASA has awarded Modulate Space Corporation a contract to develop key elements of a 5G communications system for use on the lunar surface with built-in Wi-Fi 6, for NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. This acceler…
NASA, International Partners Advance Work on Space Crops
NASA, CSA (Canadian Space Agency), and the German Aerospace Center signed a joint statement of intent to begin coordinated, preparatory work toward an Earth-based demonstrator to learn how to grow crops on the Moon.
Star Trails
This long-duration image shows star trails above Earth and the blue lights of fishing boats and the yellow lights of Indonesian cities stretching below the International Space Station as it orbited 258 miles above the Ba…
ESA and China's Smile satellite is cleared to start science, with a catch: its X-ray camera is working very well but picks up too much stray light when pointed towards Earth
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Microbes could survive on Saturn's moon Enceladus — and scientists think we can find them
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NASA has a Dragon dilemma, and there appear to be no good answers
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ESA investigates potential future European-led orbital outpost
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SpaceX's Spaceship reaches orbit for first time despite engine failure – video
SpaceX's spaceship blasted off from its Starbase launch facility in Texas on 28 September morning, marking its 14th test flight and first attempt to circle the planet before falling back to Earth, despite an engine failu…
‘Starship is in orbit’: cheers go up as huge SpaceX rocket circles Earth for first time
Mission goes ahead despite some fears an initial engine failure after the Texas launch would scupper the attempt SpaceX has sent its enormous Starship rocket into Earth’s orbit for the first time on a milestone flight in…
Earth microbes survive simulated conditions of Saturn moon’s ocean
Experiment suggests organisms could live in harsh environment under Enceladus’s icy crust, strengthening possibility moon could support life From the moment scientists spotted plumes of water erupting from Enceladus, one…
Spacecraft returns to Earth after rescue mission for ageing Nasa telescope fails
Series of in-flight problems meant Link, a ‘commercial space robot’, could not salvage the Nasa observatory A spacecraft that was launched in July on a mission to rescue a decaying Nasa space observatory plunged back to …
Is China catching up to the US and SpaceX on reusable rockets?
The next space race is not about making rockets faster, bigger or more capacious, but about reusing them reliably and cheaply. The US is well ahead, but can China catch up?
UK to launch military squadron to protect satellites in space
New RAF unit will warn of incoming missile attacks, and support offensive and defensive operations A new military unit dedicated to defending satellites, protecting services people need on Earth and potentially supportin…
Do we live in a simulation? If so, it could be a giant consciousness experiment
Philosophers have pondered whether we live in a simulation for centuries. Now, Astronomer Royal for Scotland Catherine Heymans suggests a compelling rationale for why our reality might actually be synthetic
The US air force admitted to deploying weapons in space. Don’t expect the White House to explain why
The revelation ‘left experts scratching their heads at exactly what Donald Trump has in his cosmic arsenal’ In Hollywood at least, space weapons are a relatively simple concept. The good guys, from Captain Kirk and his c…
SpaceX’s Starship will orbit Earth for first time during next flight
Starship's next test flight will be its first orbital mission. The craft will also release working Starlink V3 satellites for the first time, making the flight the first commercially useful Starship mission
See the dazzling images that won Astronomy Photographer of the Year
Stunning pictures of nebulae, stars, the moon and more took top prizes in this year's astrophotography competition, organised by the Royal Observatory in London
Asteroid hit the moon and flung rocks 120 kilometres from the crater
Researchers have watched a huge crater form on the lunar surface, and its widespread effects could help inform future exploration of the moon and other similar places
Maggie Aderin explores stunning images of the universe captured by JWST
Space scientist Maggie Aderin tells Karmela Padavic-Callaghan about these stunning photographs from the James Webb Space Telescope, which feature in her new book