Sometimes the seemingly strange ideas are the best ones. To infini-pee and beyond!
The clock is ticking as the capsule can only stay docked at the station for 45 days.
Since it was launched out of the Earth’s atmosphere, Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster has travelled an unbelievable distance across space and time.
The mission is the sixth in the Chang’e moon exploration programme, which is named after a Chinese moon goddess.
The mission follows a series of delays, including a scrubbed launch attempt on May 6 due to a “buzzing” valve aboard the Atlas V rocket and a subsequent helium leak in the Starliner spacecraft.
The space elevator cable, which will stretch through the Earth’s atmosphere, will carry materials and people using wheeled lifts called “Climber”.
This new, immersive visualisation produced on a NASA supercomputer represents a scenario where a camera — a stand-in for a daring astronaut — enters the event horizon, sealing its fate.
If Earth was the size of a marble, the edge of our solar system would be 11 kilometres away. That’s a lot of space to hide a planet.
This might be the only time that a mistake in understanding is considered exciting.
To understand what it might be like for humans to make it to the real Mars, and stick it out, behavioural ecologist Kelly Weinersmith gave her two cents.
The plan had been for Kairos – an ancient Greek word meaning “the right moment” – to put the satellite into orbit about 51 minutes after take-off.
First found in 2023, the exoplanet has a mass of 3.02 Earths and it takes 19.3 days to complete one orbit of its star.
Until Woolies launches a macaroon into orbit, Game is the only South African retailer to pull off a stunt like this.
Jeff Bezos’ rocket is going to need a bigger glans.
If Thursday’s landing attempt goes according to plan, Intuitive Machines could become the first company to pull off a successful touchdown on the lunar surface.
This is one of Cape Town’s best ‘uncommon’ experiences and one that the whole family will enjoy.
Sitting in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, the ‘space graveyard’ is also known as the “pole of inaccessibility,” with the nearest patch of land 2,700km away.
The giant rocket launched into space on the 8th of January and was headed towards the moon, but the mission unravelled very quickly and it has now been declared a huge failure.
A beam of cosmic energy so powerful that it carried the equivalent of hundreds of billions of volts of electricity hit Earth in 2021 and scientists are mystified by this for a couple of reasons.
The science bros have released another thrilling video; This time viewers can experience flying through Mars’ enormous “Labyrinth of Night,” a system of extremely steep valleys and mountains about the length of Italy.
By 2040, there could be more than one man on the moon.
Varda Space Industries wants to build the world’s first commercial microgravity industrial park at scale.
Tiangong is currently inhabited by the three-person Shenzhou 17 crew, but China aims to keep the orbital outpost occupied for at least a decade and potentially utilize the station for commercial purposes.
At a time when the internet is littered with AI-created images that are hard to tell apart from the real deal, it’s clear that no one does it better than Mother Nature.
The nation’s ability to adapt and refine existing technology, combined with its wealth of skilled engineers operating at lower wages compared to international counterparts, have been driving factors in India’s success.
About 30 astronauts and cosmonauts have died while training for or attempting dangerous space missions. But the vast majority of these deaths occurred either on the ground or in Earth’s atmosphere.
If you’re a fellow space-geek, the four-part Netflix docuseries Unknown: Cosmic Time Machine should be entering your personal orbit.
“Give me fuel! Give me fire!” the award-winning metal band sings on top of their characteristic guitar power chords.
“Our own Sun experienced a phase like this long ago, and now we have the technology to see the beginning of another’s star’s story.”
It’s pretty cool to see astronomy pros and hobbyists alike share some of their incredible shots of the pretty things up top in the Astronomy Photographer of the Year awards.