Astronauts from the International Space Station competed in their own version of the Olympics.
Along with the novelty of space tourism, SpaceX and its Netflix streaming special will mark a new era of live broadcasting.
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.
Three of the world’s wealthiest people are trying to top each other with the most ambitious private space expeditions.
The shortlisted photographs in The Royal Observatory Greenwich’s 13th Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition are so beautiful that it’s hard to believe they’re real.
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Next month, the world’s richest person will head to space. These people argue that he should stay there.
More and more US Navy personnel are speaking out about their experience with UFOs, and the Pentagon is due to release a report on the matter by June 1.
Mars now has a ridge named after a Namibian man who studied at the University of Stellenbosch.
Ask the general public to answer this question – the universe is expanding, but what is it expanding into? – and you’ll get a very mixed bag of responses.
NASA scientists have to consider many factors when it comes to feeding their astronauts nutritious, tasty, and storable food.
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.
12 lucky connoisseurs got the chance to crack open an R89 000 bottle of wine, that has spent the last year in space.
By 2027, it looks like you’ll be able to add ‘low orbit’ to your list of travel destinations, including a booking at a fully kitted out space hotel.
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”.
Three lucky people will be joining tech billionaire Jared Isaacman on a private flight into space, and there’s even a raffle running for the honour.
It’s Amazon versus SpaceX in a battle for galactic real estate in the satellite-based internet market.
Yeah, there’s a lot of bad stuff happening, and it’s easy to get caught up in it, but let’s not lose sight of some of the things that will inspire hope this year.
NASA once again has its sights set on the Moon, and it’s built a beast of a rocket to get the job done.
On Sunday, “a dazzling fireball” was seen lighting up the skies across large areas of western Japan, as a meteor entered Earth’s atmosphere.
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.
Christie’s is auctioning off images from those first few years of space exploration, captured when photography was still analogue.
Hollywood would have us believe that floating around in space is a glamourous business, but in reality, it can be a little gross.
If hypotheses are correct, even Jeff Bezos couldn’t afford to buy Asteroid Psyche, which is worth more than the entire economy on our planet.
For more than two years, scientists have been studying a 12 million-year-old meteorite that fell to Earth in 2018, and they’re ready to reveal the results.
In another landmark space adventure, NASA’s mission to collect dust and rocks from asteroid Bennu was a success.
It was one of those days when everything went wrong, except it all happened in space which raises the stakes a little.
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”.