It’s a very good time to be a taikonaut. China’s space program has gone from a standing start to a…
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On the morning of June 17, China launched its long-awaited Shenzhou-12 spacecraft, carrying three Chinese astronauts – or taikonauts – towards…
Tide, if you’re a South African internet user, was last seen in 2018 during something called the Tide Pod Challenge.…
NASA’s Hubble telescope is getting a little old, but it’s still running. Or, rather, it was. The ageing space hardware,…
Last month, China successfully landed and deployed the Zhurong rover on Mars, becoming the second country ever to set wheels on the…
NASA might be taking photos of the Martian surface with a helicopter, but they’re used to this sort of thing.…
Jeff Bezos is heading to space on one of his Blue Origin rockets on 20 July this year. He’s taking…
Former Amazon CEO and occasionally the richest man in the world Jeff Bezos is about to add another accolade to…
NASA has selected two missions, dubbed DAVINCI+ and VERITAS, to study the “lost habitable” world of Venus. Each mission will…
NASA has serious exploration plans afoot. It’s Mars this year, it’s the Moon soon with the upcoming Artemis missions, and…