With the proposal for enormous space telescopes becoming more serious, engineers suggest using tiny satellites as ‘guide stars’ for any future telescope
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New Horizons Update: Spacecraft reveals Ultima Thule as entirely new world
The Kuiper Belt Object’s remarkable appearance illuminates the processes that built the planets four and a half billion years ago
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Would astronauts need a lot of shielding to safely travel into deep space?
We have the answer to this intriguing question
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Heroes of Space: Abe Silverstein
Meet the father of the Apollo programme
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New Horizons has successfully reached Ultima Thule
The greatest news to bring in the new year was that the NASA spacecraft successfully explored its first Kuiper Belt object
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New Horizons has already spotted something peculiar about Ultima Thule
The lack of a light curve when examining Ultima Thule has already caused a mystery before the target’s flyby
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VIDEO: Apollo 8’s message from the Moon on Christmas Eve 1968
Listen to the live broadcast held by astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and William Anders 50 years ago
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New Horizons Update: Spacecraft takes inside course for Ultima Thule rendezvous
With no apparent hazards in its way, NASA’s mission has been given a “go” to stay on its optimal path to the Kuiper Belt Object
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The Martian garden of InSight
Engineers have already tested InSight’s instruments on Earth using a full scale model called ForeSight
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Heroes of Space: Ham the chimpanzee
As the first primate in space, Ham paved the way for human exploration
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Heroes of Space: Shannon Lucid
The staunch space heroine who blazed a trail for female astronauts
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Water has already been spotted on the surface of the asteroid Bennu
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has already spotted the signs for water residing in the asteroid’s surface
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InSight listens to the winds of Mars
NASA’s InSight lander has recently arrived at Mars and has detected the rumbles caused by Martian wind
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Heroes of Space: Hugh L. Dryden
The unsung hero who built NASA into the world’s greatest space agency.
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The ‘camera that saved Hubble’ turns 25
25 years ago, a group of NASA astronauts altered the Hubble Space Telescope in a way that would change our understanding of the universe
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Watch LIVE: NASA announces new Moon-to-Mars programme
Tune in on Thursday at 19:00 UTC/GMT (14:00 EST) on 29 November as NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine reveals new plans for manned space exploration
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Watch LIVE: NASA’s InSight lands on the surface of Mars
Don’t miss a moment of the action as the Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport lander touches down on the Red Planet at approximately 8pm GMT/3pm ET
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Heroes of Space: Professor Stephen Hawking
We take a look at the life so far of one of the greatest physicists of the modern day.
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Valentina Tereshkova: First Woman in Space
Tereshkova became the first woman to enter space in 1963
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Did the Apollo astronauts take any photos of the Sun from the Moon?
Outside the Earth’s atmosphere, was it safe for the Apollo astronauts to image the Sun?