It’s fun to speculate about the weird things that cameras have managed to capture on Mars and send back to Earth, but often there is a perfectly good, scientific explanation for it all.
At a distance of 628 million kilometres from Earth, NASA’s Juno spacecraft has sent us some dreamy snaps of Jupiter’s surface.
Supersonic commercial travel is on the horizon once more, according to NASA and Lockheed Martin, who are building a needle-like aeroplane, the X-59 QueSST.
NASA is designing new spacesuits for the Artemis missions, which will be taking the first woman and the first person of colour to the moon in 2024.
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has observed some fascinating cosmic wonders over the past 31 years, and now you can pinpoint one great photo taken on your birthday.
Travelling to Mars is an incredible feat, and while Elon Musk believes we can get there in the next decade, there are some serious obstacles to overcome.
The space race is once again on between America and Russia, but this time it’s about who will get their film crews into space first.
SpaceX had had some explosive problems with rocket prototypes before, but finally, the SN15 took off and landed with near perfection.
Four astronauts returned safely to Earth on Sunday, in the first nighttime splashdown since the Apollo 8 moonshot in 1968.
The space race between Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, and in particular, the awarding of a NASA contract, has led us to the point where Elon is cracking penis jokes on Twitter.
Mars now has a ridge named after a Namibian man who studied at the University of Stellenbosch.
There’s been some mysterious rumbling coming from inside Mars. Scientists, with the help of the InSight Lander, are busy figuring out what it could mean.
Perseverance and her ground team are going from strength to strength since her successful landing on Mars, with images flooding in from her advanced onboard cameras.
NASA executed yet another successful spacewalk on Sunday, and it came with some spectacular views of Earth.
A few keen-eyed Redditors and Twitter users took a look at Perseverance’s parachute and picked up on something that most of us missed.
Space movies are great, but often take liberties when it comes to how life really works up there. NASA astronaut Garrett Reisman stepped in to set a few things straight.
After years of planning, and months of waiting for her to touch down on Mars, Perseverance is ready to start work on the Red Planet.
The Perseverance Mars rover launched in July last year, and has just about completed its journey, which is set to culminate in a nail-biting “seven minutes of terror”.
NASA once again has its sights set on the Moon, and it’s built a beast of a rocket to get the job done.
44-year-old Victor Glover is pretty stoked with life right about now, as he begins his six-month stay aboard the International Space Station.
The astronauts chosen for the first mission to Mars will need more than just the technical know-how to complete the mission successfully.
NASA keeps a watchlist of all the asteroids that they think might be heading our way, and Asteroid 99942 Apophis is under close supervision.
Baby Yoda played an important role in the Crew-1 mission to the International Space Station.
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Christie’s is auctioning off images from those first few years of space exploration, captured when photography was still analogue.
In another landmark space adventure, NASA’s mission to collect dust and rocks from asteroid Bennu was a success.
In a first for NASA, the Osiris-Rex probe hopes to touch down on a large asteroid and grab some rocks and dust in what has been dubbed a “high five manoeuvre”.
The Tesla Roadster, with its mannequin ‘pilot’ Starman, made its first close approach to Mars.
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The Ingenuity Mars helicopter is looking to make history by becoming the first helicopter ever designed to fly on another planet.