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On this day in space! Sept. 6, 1947: The US Navy launches 1st V-2 rocket at sea in ballistic missile test
On Sept. 6, 1947, a rocket launched from an aircraft carrier for the first time. The V-2 rocket…
Small asteroid impact today over the ocean near Australia
Artist’s concept of an asteroid near Earth. Experts said a small asteroid impact will happen over the Indian…
German startup sends first commercial rocket into space from Europe | Aerospace industry
A German startup has launched the first commercial rocket to reach orbit from continental Europe, a milestone for…
Despite being only about half Earth’s diameter, Mars has nearly as much total surface area as all of Earth’s continents combined—the difference is that oceans cover 71% of our planet, while modern Mars has no permanent bodies of liquid water.
Mars looks small beside Earth. Its mean radius is about 3,390 kilometres, a little over half Earth’s, and…
Guests from across the galaxy visiting Lichfield city centre for 2026 Space Invasion
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From January 1994 to March 1995, cosmonaut-physician Valeri Polyakov spent 437 consecutive days aboard Mir, circling Earth 7,075 times and travelling nearly 187 million miles to test whether a human could endure a Mars-length mission—and more than three decades later, no one has broken his record for a single continuous spaceflight.
When the Soyuz TM-20 capsule landed in Kazakhstan on 22 March 1995, Valeri Polyakov had been away from…
Astronomers confirm Einstein’s gravity by viewing light from behind a supermassive black hole
Astronomers detected delayed X-ray flashes consistent with light reflected from the far side of an accretion disk and…
Nasa is testing a way to turn astronaut poop into a sterile, odour-free material that could be recycled |
Image: AI representation of a way to turn astronaut poop into a sterile, odour-free material that could be…
Mars has been called the Red Planet for centuries, but a 2025 study suggests its colour comes largely from ferrihydrite—an iron mineral that typically forms rapidly in cool liquid water. If the identification is correct, Mars did not rust only after becoming a desert: much of its famous red dust formed while the ancient planet was still wet.
From Earth, Mars looks red because a veil of extraordinarily fine dust sits on its surface and hangs…