Space

Spirit’s right-front wheel stopped turning on 13 March 2006, more than two Earth years after the rover reached…

On 12 November 1980, Voyager 1 passed 6,490 kilometres from Titan’s centre, about 3,900 kilometres above the moon’s…

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Cassini’s radar found dark, nearly parallel dune belts running across Titan’s equatorial regions. Individual ridges are commonly one…

Cassini’s radar saw bright features appear within Titan’s dark northern seas, vanish on later passes and, in one…

The spacecraft made a close approach to the red planet in May on its way to explore the…

NASA’s Perseverance rover continues to explore the rim of the Jezero Crater, an impact basin in Mars’ northern…

Getting something into space has always been incredibly expensive. Every extra pound of equipment has come with a…

The share prices of space economy stocks may be sinking, but that does not make the sector any…

Solar eclipse. Photo Pavel Štarha, Aneta Zatočilová, Miloslav Duckmüller. Nation.Cymru Staff The biggest solar eclipse visible from Wales…

The starburst etched into the lower-left corner of Voyager’s Golden Record cover is neither decoration nor a picture…

When Spirit’s front wheel failed on Mars, engineers drove the rover backwards and let the dead wheel scrape through the soil — accidentally uncovering bright silica that pointed to ancient hot springs or steam vents