Space

A bathroom mould is not going to spread across the Moon. There is no rain, no breathable air…

China has achieved two major reusable rocket recovery milestones in little more than a month, potentially bringing the…

NASA is giving a financial boost to nearly 20 technology investigations to help fuel the incubation of tomorrow’s…

IT minister Vaishnaw posted on National Space Day. NEW DELHI: Made-in-India semiconductor chips are powering key Indian space…

A misbehaving coronal mass ejection (CME) that blew out a hidden cloud of charged particles aimed at Earth…

Portrait of the prime crew of the Apollo 12 lunar landing mission. From left to right, they are…

Look up at the night sky and the stars can seem impossibly distant, disconnected from the ordinary details…

The crew of the historic Artemis II lunar flyby mission have earned the US’s top space medal, officials…

Imagine finally getting a colour television camera onto the Moon, knowing millions of people back on Earth were…

On 20 April 2021, one day after a helicopter made the first powered flight on another world, a…

HELSINKI — A Chinese startup building a constellation to detect and geolocate radio-frequency emissions from orbit has closed…

Mercury soon to go behind sun This image is from the sun-observing SOHO spacecraft. It’s showing activity around the sun…

A black fungus that thrives in damp bathrooms and has been found aboard the ISS was the toughest organism in NASA’s new Moon-survival study — even outperforming a bacterium famous for being one of the most radiation-resistant lifeforms on Earth.