In 2020, China’s Chang’e 5 mission sampled more than a kilogram of Moon rock and soil and brought it back…
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Astronomers now routinely discover planets orbiting stars outside of the solar system – they’re called exoplanets. But in summer 2022, teams working…
Since 2018, NASA’s InSight mission to Mars has recorded seismic waves from more than 1,300 marsquakes in its quest to probe the internal structure…
Nasa’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (Dart) spacecraft is designed to be a one hit wonder. It will end its days by crashing…
More than half of the thousands of satellites in orbit are now defunct, and this accumulation of floating space debris…
Elon Musk’s space tech company SpaceX is rapidly advancing towards its goal of establishing Starlink – a massive satellite network…
When it comes to rocket science, you really want your safety systems to work but testing them is something you…
A glowing blob known as “the cocoon”, which appears to be inside one of the enormous gamma-ray emanations from the…
Space is a hostile, extreme environment. It’s only a matter of time before ordinary people are exposed to this environment,…
Our Sun has a rather lonely existence in the Milky Way galaxy. It sits on its own, four light years…