space

The software that guided Apollo 11 towards the Moon did not reach its computer as an electronic download.…

When you launch a spacecraft, you need to propel a very large, heavy object high into the air,…

To date, astronomers have confirmed the existence of 6,324 exoplanets in 4,738 star systems, with tens of thousands…

NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) will be the premier exoplanet-hunting space telescope once it launches sometime in the…

Opportunity reached Mars with a requirement to survive 90 Martian days and drive at least 600 metres. When…

SpaceX’s logo is visible on a building at the company’s South Texas facility in Cameron County, Texas, on…

For the first time, scientists have found a rocky planet with an atmosphere orbiting in a star’s habitable…

Watch: SpaceX’s successful test flight and splashdown for Starship BBCSpaceX launches massive Starship rocket in first test flight since…

image: Halo 18 is an example of a galaxy that had a head-on collision (see the panel at…

Don Pettit, a NASA astronaut aboard the International Space Station, conducted a science experiment growing potassium chloride crystals.…

Where are the arts and humanities in current debates about space research? The physicist Laura Grego tells us…

The first version of Falcon 9, launched in 2010, reportedly brought the cost of reaching orbit down by…

The physics secrets that dictate where NASA launches its rockets from (and why we don’t launch rockets from mountains)