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Space Exploration
Heroes of Space: The Mercury 13 crew
In a time of gender prejudice, these women were denied the chance to fly into space, despite their obvious and remarkable capabilities
Solar System
NASA spots InSight Mars lander and Curiosity rover from space (photos)
The new photo is the best-ever look at the InSight lander on the surface of Mars
Space Exploration
Boeing aims to launch unpiloted Starliner test flight to space station in December
Liftoff is targeted for 17 December 2019
Space Exploration
SpaceX could launch NASA astronauts into space in early 2020
Crew Dragon is nearly ready to go
FutureTech
Future Tech: Pluto hopper
A NASA project is working on a new way to slow down planetary spacecraft to enable an ingenious hopping dwarf planet mission
Space Exploration
Heroes of Space: Pete Conrad
The maverick astronaut who became known to many as the Comeback Kid
Space Exploration
NASA hands out $43 million for ‘Tipping Point’ tech for the Moon and Mars
Blue Origin and SpaceX are among the winners
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
NASA wants to test new Moon spacesuits on the space station in 2023
The space agency have called for a new space suit to compliment their Artemis program
Space Exploration
NASA wants a new space telescope to protect us all from dangerous asteroids
The organisation want to rehash an old mission concept for planetary defence, instead of the initially-intended science aims
Space Exploration
Why have we sent a mission to asteroid Bennu?
Why have scientists and engineers invested so much time, effort and money into a mission to a nearby asteroid?
Space Exploration
NASA’s Juno mission checks out eclipse on Jupiter
One of of Galilean moons cast a giant shadow over Jupiter which was spotted by NASA’s Juno spacecraft
FutureTech
New Worlds mission: Hunting for alien life using a starshade
By putting a huge umbrella into space, we could come closer to finding extraterrestrial life
Space Exploration
Heroes of Space: Margaret Rhea Seddon
She became the first female surgeon to go into space
Space Exploration
Long after historic flybys, NASA’s New Horizons is still pioneering science in the Kuiper Belt
The spacecraft made historic flybys of Pluto and the Kuiper Belt Object Ultima Thule, but there is still more to offer
Space Exploration
Why send people into space when a robotic spacecraft costs less?
We take a look at the answer to this intriguing question
Solar System
Titan’s lakes are actually ancient explosion craters
It is likely that when nitrogen trapped in the moon’s surface was heated into vapour form, it caused an explosion
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
Astronomy
NASA creates a clever “CGI Moon kit” animation
The CGI Moon kit was created from data taken by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter