When the Soviet Union lands on the moon first people in the US are shocked. But…
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SpaceX has plans to fly space tourists twice as high as the ISS
SpaceX and space tourism firm Space Adventures have announced a plan to fly paying customers into…
An exoplanet is generating radio waves from its red dwarf sun
For the first time, astronomers have spotted an exoplanet by detecting radio waves generated by interactions…
Cork-coated spacecraft to be chucked out of the ISS for re-entry test
A spacecraft designed to study re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere has a nose coated in cork, a…
Astronomy group finds Starlink satellites will have 'negative impact'
The International Astronomical Union has concluded a review of satellite mega constellations such as SpaceX’s Starlink…
NASA missions may go to Venus or our solar system’s strangest moons
NASA has selected four potential future missions to visit Jupiter’s fiery moon Io, Neptune’s icy moon…
Mars may have formed 15 million years later than we thought
Young Mars may have endured a series of huge collisions that smashed its mantle, throwing off…
Jupiter is wetter than we thought, which helps explain how it formed
NASA’s Juno spacecraft has found that Jupiter contains more water than measured by its predecessor, Galileo,…
We’ve finally spotted a pattern in mysterious radio blasts from space
Strange, powerful blasts of radio waves from space called fast radio bursts sometimes flash repeatedly, but…
Pluto's icy nitrogen heart makes its atmosphere spin backwards
Every day on Pluto, nitrogen puffs out the icy world’s heart-shaped plain into the atmosphere, and…