A large communications satellite has broken up in orbit, affecting users in Europe, Central Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Australia,…
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Discovering extraterrestrial life would be one of the most profound scientific and philosophical revelations that our species has ever made. But such…
In recent decades, we’ve learnt huge amounts about the universe and its history. The rapidly developing technology of telescopes –…
NASA plans to send crewed missions to Mars over the next decade – but the 140 million-mile (225 million-kilometer) journey to the red planet could…
The European Space Agency’s Hera mission will set off from Cape Canaveral on 7 October on a SpaceX Falcon 9…
NASA plans to send humans on a scientific round trip to Mars potentially as early as 2035. The trip will…
On October 10, NASA is launching a hotly anticipated new mission to Jupiter’s fourth-largest moon, Europa. Called Europa Clipper, the spacecraft…
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the largest and most powerful space telescope built to date. Since it was launched in…
SpaceX has launched its Crew Dragon spacecraft on a “rescue mission” to bring back two astronauts stranded at the International Space Station (ISS) since…
In January 2023, a new comet was discovered. Comets are found regularly, but astronomers quickly realised this one, called C/2023 A3…