But far less attention is given to the psychological and moral inheritance humanity may carry into the Solar System. Will we ...

Scientists studying light emitted from a distant nebula have found a star at its centre that is unlike anything seen before. Not only is it a new kind of x-ray source, the star has record breaking ...

A cloth and some glue might not seem a high-tech way in which to fix a hole in a spacecraft orbiting above Earth, but that is how astronauts filled the breach on a Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft docked to the ...

Scientists using a new technique to image exoplanets in the mid-infrared may have just found a super-Earth-sized exoplanet around Alpha Centauri, the nearest star system to us. Whats more the planet ...

It seems the Universe is in a spin and has been since the beginning – a finding that goes against the current theory of how our cosmos formed. Earth is spinning, so are our neighbouring planets, in ...

As a physicist, avid science fiction reader and experienced research project leader, the author of this primer on the science of interstellar travel thought he was “mentally prepared to think out of ...

At the 13th European Space Conference held this week both in Brussels and with an on-line presence, the Portuguese Space Agency has said it is looking at building a spaceport on the Azores islands.

Located roughly 27,000 light-years from the Sun, the centre of our galaxy is dominated by a supermassive black hole 4.3 million times as massive as the Sun. Although scientists had long suspected that ...

The unpiloted US Air Force X-37B spaceplane is back in orbit after a successful launch aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket Sunday morning. The vehicle lifted off at 09:14 AM Eastern time ...

Strategic space marketing firm AstroAgency has been nominated for two awards in the 2021 Sir Arthur Clarke Awards which will be presented during a gala dinner organised by the British Interplanetary ...

The new Director General of Nigeria’s Space Agency (NSA) Dr Halilu Shaba has been offered unqualified support by the country’s Minister of State for Budget & National Planning Prince Clem Agba in the ...

China’s successfully maiden flight of its Long March 5B which lofted an experimental spacecraft into orbit last week, has come under scrutiny with reports suggesting that debris has hit parts of the ...