The new photo is the best-ever look at the InSight lander on the surface of Mars
Solar System
Solar System
Space Exploration
Space junk menace: New guidelines urged to help fight orbital debris threat
Spacecraft designers and operators need to be proactive, a new organisation argues
Space Exploration
SpaceX could launch NASA astronauts into space in early 2020
Crew Dragon is nearly ready to go
Solar System
20 new moons found around Saturn, snagging satellite record from Jupiter
Saturn now has 82 known satellites
Space Exploration
Blue Origin probably won’t launch people to space this year
2020 is a more likely target
Deep Space
Neptune-size exomoon candidate may be the captured core of a giant planet
The mysterious Kepler-1625b-i and its parent planet may once have been siblings
Space Exploration
‘Totally nuts’? Elon Musk aims to put a Starship in orbit in six months. Here’s SpaceX’s plan
The landmark orbital flight will likely be made by the fourth or fifth full-size Starship prototype
Space Exploration
Elon Musk just dropped more tantalising details about SpaceX’s Starship prototype
The Starship Mk1 will be 50 metres (165 feet) tall and weigh 1,270 tonnes (1,400 tons) when fuelled
Deep Space
Rare discovery! Three monster black holes are about to collide
They’re at the core of a triple galaxy merger one billion light years from Earth
Space Exploration
We could chase down an interstellar Comet Borisov by 2045
We could send a spacecraft to Comet C/2019 Q4 (Borisov), but it wouldn’t be easy
Space Exploration
No space crash: Dead Russian satellite just missed an old habitat prototype in orbit
It could have been really bad
Deep Space
The water vapour find on ‘habitable’ exoplanet K2-18 b is exciting — but it’s no Earth twin
But who says the confirmation of alien life will come on Earth 2.0?
Space Exploration
Made In Space to step up off-Earth production of valuable optical Fibre
A slightly bigger ZBLAN-manufacturing machine will be going up to the space station soon
Space Exploration
NASA’s record-breaking Parker Solar Probe aces third Sun flyby
Three down, 21 to go
Solar System
A telescope orbiting the Moon could spy one interstellar visitor per year
Such a mission would shed considerable light on our solar system’s population of interstellar objects
Space Exploration
SpaceX Starhopper rocket prototype aces highest (and final) test flight
Starhopper is passing the test-flight torch to orbital prototypes
Space Exploration
NASA names record setting Mars rock after The Rolling Stones
Robert Downey Jr. made the announcement at a Stones concert on 22 August 2019
Solar System
SpaceX’s Starman and Elon Musk’s Tesla have made a lap around the Sun
The deep-space duo have come full circle
Space Exploration
Virgin Galactic inaugurated its ‘Gateway to Space’ by flying ‘Eve’ over Spaceport America
VMS Eve flew from its refurbished home base for the first time on 15 August 2019