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Space exploration

  • Monday, 16 September, 2024
    Sinead O'Sullivan
    How Europe and the US can regain space power

    New reports on both sides of the Atlantic offer cause for concern and opportunity for change

    The four commercial crew astronauts representing NASA’s SpaceX Crew-3 mission are pictured in their Dragon spacesuits for a fit check aboard the International Space Station’s Harmony module
  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
    Astronauts complete first private spacewalk

    Polaris Dawn mission boosts prospects for space exploration missions undertaken by commercial crews

    This image made from a SpaceX video shows the start of the first private spacewalk led by tech billionaire Jared Isaacman
  • Monday, 26 August, 2024
    Explainer
    How will Nasa return two US astronauts stranded in space?

    Agency turns to Elon Musk’s SpaceX after Boeing’s Starliner meant to take them home suffered technical problems

    Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, center, pose with Expedition 71 Flight Engineers Mike Barratt, left, and Tracy Dyson, aboard the International Space Station’s Quest
  • Saturday, 24 August, 2024
    Nasa
    Nasa turns to Musk’s SpaceX to bring stuck astronauts back to Earth

    US space agency will not use Boeing spacecraft that ferried crew to International Space Station

    Nasa administrator Bill Nelson
  • Wednesday, 14 August, 2024
    Anjana Ahuja
    Water on Mars presents scientists with an unearthly challenge

    Evidence of an underground reservoir is an obvious destination to look for life on the Red Planet

    Andy Carter illustration of a NASA lander opening Mars to see under the surface, discovering a large amount of liquid water.
  • Wednesday, 7 August, 2024
    Nasa
    Nasa may ask SpaceX to retrieve astronauts stuck at space station

    US space agency is being ‘conservative’ about whether to use Boeing’s Starliner for return mission

    Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft
  • Friday, 2 August, 2024
    FT Magazine
    Last days of the lonely interstellar spacecraft

    When the 50-year-old Voyager probe stopped sending messages home, Nasa had a problem. No one remembered how to fix it

    A model of a Voyager spacecraft against a space backdrop
  • Wednesday, 17 July, 2024
    The Big Read
    What do we gain from going back to the Moon?

    Nasa is leading a global race to live and work on the lunar surface. But for all the investment there are no guaranteed rewards

  • Saturday, 13 July, 2024
    Emma Jacobs
    Would you survive 378 days of team bonding? Nasa takes the test

    Lengthy simulation of life on Mars illuminates the universal features of work, including petty irritations with colleagues

    The CHAPEA crew
  • Monday, 8 July, 2024
    Space industry
    Europe launches countdown on its return to space

    Ariane 6 rocket must pass multiple carefully orchestrated milestones before lifting off on its first flight on Tuesday

    A test run of the Ariane 6 rocket at the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana, in September last year
  • Wednesday, 26 June, 2024
    Boeing Co
    Boeing rejects claims Nasa crew ‘stranded’ by spacecraft

    Delayed return of Starliner from International Space Station comes at worst possible time for US aerospace group

    The two astronauts wave  as they each hold a rose
  • Thursday, 6 June, 2024
    Space Exploration Technologies Corp
    SpaceX’s Starship completes fourth test flight despite last-minute hitch

    Successful mission boosts Elon Musk’s plans to build a spacecraft able to take humans to Moon and beyond

  • Sunday, 2 June, 2024
    China lands probe to collect first samples from far side of Moon

    Beijing hopes Chang’e-6 will help to determine whether little-known region can become lunar base

  • Wednesday, 22 May, 2024
    European Space Agency
    European Space Agency aims for own version of SpaceX

    Body awards contracts to two companies to develop cargo services to International Space Station

    The Exploration Company’s Nyx vehicle
  • Friday, 26 April, 2024
    Anjana Ahuja
    Rejoice! Voyager 1 is back from the dead

    The craft embodies a golden age of space exploration

    This artist’s concept of NASA’s Voyager spacecraft with its antennapointing to Earth
  • Saturday, 13 April, 2024
    ReviewScience books
    Alien Earths — fascinating adventures in the cosmos

    Lisa Kaltenegger is an enthusiastic guide to the search for life beyond our planet — and the new technologies that could help it succeed

    A woman with long brown hair stands smiling in a booklined room. Next to her is a picture of the planets
  • Friday, 22 March, 2024
    Special ReportFuture of Water
    Space agencies race to find water on the moon

    Tapping supplies near the lunar south pole could be critical for future settlements

    High resolution mosaic of lunar south pole region
  • Friday, 15 March, 2024
    Space Exploration Technologies Corp
    SpaceX’s Starship rocket reaches space but is lost on return to Earth

    World’s most powerful rocket fails in final phase after meeting third test mission’s other objectives

    SpaceX’s Starship rocket is launched in its third test flight
  • Wednesday, 13 March, 2024
    Verity Harding
    What the cold war space race can teach us on AI

    International agreement could curb the fight for supremacy in today’s most ambitious technology

    black and white photo of John F Kennedy addressing the UN in 1963
  • Sunday, 10 March, 2024
    First commercial moon mission will try to revive lander as lunar night ends

    Intuitive Machines aims to extend Odysseus’s pioneering commercial space exploration mission

    Intuitive Machines lander on way to the moon
  • Saturday, 24 February, 2024
    First commercial spacecraft lands on the Moon

    Successful touchdown by Intuitive Machines’ lunar lander heralds more commercial era for space exploration

    Intuitive Machines’ Odysseus lander passes over the near side of the Moon following lunar orbit insertion on February 21 2024
  • Monday, 29 January, 2024
    Japan’s lunar craft regains power after upside-down landing

    Landmark mission this month was jeopardised after engine failure on descent led to power problem

    Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency officials smile in front of a screen showing an image taken by the lunar lander on Monday
  • Friday, 19 January, 2024
    Japanese spacecraft lands on the Moon

    Tokyo joins USSR, US, China and India in achieving soft landing but power problem jeopardises its lunar project

    People raise their hands in celebration at a public viewing event near Tokyo after the Slim spacecraft successfully landed on the Moon
  • Wednesday, 17 January, 2024
    Anjana Ahuja
    A new galactic superstructure could undo science’s theory of the universe

    The finding has provoked a mixed reaction among the cosmological cognoscenti

    Andy Carter illustration of scientists looking through a telescope, with the eye showing up in the end of the telescope with the big ring of galaxies
  • Wednesday, 10 January, 2024
    News in-depthNikkei Asia
    Asia space race heats up as China, Japan and India reach for the stars

    Beijing-based LandSpace set to challenge Elon Musk’s monopoly on reusable rockets next year

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