Space

Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic space plane has conducted the first of three key test flights that should enable it to enter commercial service. The Unity vehicle, with pilots Dave Mackay and CJ Sturckow at the...

China has released the first pictures taken by its Zhurong rover on Mars. The forward view shows the landscape ahead of the robot as it sits on its landing platform; the rear-looking image reveals Zhurong’s solar...

Not in a Hollywood studio, this time the space movie will be shooting. And one or two plans are being heard. The United States and Russia have taken the initiative to make these two pictures. The...

The remains of a Chinese rocket that was hurtling back towards Earth have crashed into the Indian Ocean, the country’s space agency says. The bulk of the rocket was destroyed as it re-entered the atmosphere, but...

The wreckage of China’s largest spacecraft, the Longmarch Five B, has crashed into the earth. It crashed in a part of the Indian Ocean near the South Asian country of Maldives on Sunday (May 9th) morning....

SpaceX managed to land its prototype Starship rocket at its Texas base without blowing it up on Wednesday, the first time it has succeeded in doing so in five attempts. The test flight represents a major...

Michael Collins, one of the successful astronauts to the moon in 1989, has died. He was 90 years old at the time of his death. News from the BBC. He took part in the first manned...

NASA successfully flew the Ingenuity helicopter on Mars on Monday, data downloaded from the aircraft confirmed, reports BSS. “Altimeter data confirms that Ingenuity has performed the first flight of a powered aircraft on another planet,” announced...

NASA has selected SpaceX to land the first astronauts on the surface of the Moon since 1972, the agency said on Friday, in a huge victory for Elon Musk’s company. The contract, worth $2.9 billion, involves...

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter could make its first flight over the Red Planet as soon as Monday, the US space agency reported, following a delay of more than a week due to a possible technical issue....