The trip will take six people into space for approximately 10 minutes, where they will experience weightlessness.
With freezing temperatures, radiation, and a non-breathable atmosphere to consider, one does not simply pitch a tent on Mars and get on with life as we know it.
SpaceX’s Starship, designed to take astronauts to the moon for NASA and eventually to Mars, hasn’t even made it into space yet.
Werner and Rudolph Herzog are examining the quest to colonise space in their new documentary, ‘Last Exit: Space’.
The precarious relationship between the US and Russia is as far-reaching as space, with the future of the International Space Station (ISS) proving to be rather uncertain.
Many of those who have spotted the train of lights didn’t know what they were and immediately jumped to conclusions thinking that they were UFOs or an alien invasion.
The images give us a glimpse of the famous remnant of the supernova Cassiopeia A that exploded in the 17th century, 11 000 light-years away from Earth.
It all started when a Reddit user asked for examples of “a scientific fact that absolutely blows your mind”.
The space junk came from a recently launched batch of lost Starlink satellites caused by an unexpected sting in the tail from a solar storm.
Experts reckon 2022 could be profound as UFO disclosure and discovery becomes more commonplace and new scientific projects reveal more about life outside Earth.
We may have moved on but Starman and the cherry red sports car are still out there, having cruised past Mars in October 2020.
We may never know exactly what’s cracking up there in the great beyond, but thanks to the MeerKAT telescope we are a little closer to finding out.
A video of Europa and Io making moves around the planet is so gorgeous that some have questioned whether it is real or not. Spoiler – it is.
Mercury went into retrograde for the first time in 2022 from January 14 and is set to end its rampage of chaos on February 3.
Just like in the film ‘Don’t Look Up’, a doctoral student made an unusual discovery while using a high-powered telescope.
Back in 2015, SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket into space. It left its second stage behind, which is now on a collision course with the Moon.
Thanks to the International Space Station (ISS) we get to see Cape Town from space, on more occasions than one.
We’ve all heard the sayings “it’s not brain surgery” or “it’s not rocket science” when referring to something that isn’t all that difficult.
People are speculating about the cause of a strange plethora of glowing lights dancing above the South China Sea.
2021 will go down as one of the more memorable years in space for a multitude of reasons.
Possible evidence of a ninth planet in our Solar System seems more likely than ever according to a British astronomer.
Tom Hanks pretty much just dissed Jeff Bezos and his expensive commercial space jaunt during his appearance on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ this week.
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin just announced plans to put the first commercial space station into orbit, which will be like a “mixed-use business park” for film crews and tourists to enjoy Earth from a distance.
In order to help billionaire wannabe astronauts decide if it is worth wasting millions on an actual flight to space, a French hotelier has set up a way to give them a taste.
Former ‘Star Trek’ co-stars William Shatner and George Takei have been hating on each other for decades.
Captain James Kirk from ‘Star Trek’, William Shatner, has just traversed fiction by going into space for real this time as the oldest space traveller yet.
When you look up at the sky in late November, just know that there’s a chance NASA will be ramming a spacecraft into some space rocks.
The competition has been running for 13 years out of The Royal Observatory Greenwich, with more than 4 500 entries this year.
The view from the toilet on SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft was supposed to be spectacular. Sadly, that did not work out as planned.
Retired NASA astronaut Jack Fischer is sharing some rather astonishing videos that show just how hectic space travel really is.