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A three-armed spacecraft rocketed into orbit Friday to rescue a NASA telescope that’s in danger of crashing back to Earth.

In Donald Trump’s first term, the president called an aide into his study off the Oval Office to assign a new target.

Tourism and fishing associations in Shetland have voiced alarm and concern about the plans, while campaigners condemn space companies as “litter louts".

Chilling audio has revealed Apollo 12 astronauts saw mysterious “streaks of light” while trying to sleep in space, according to a new UFO file dump ordered by President Trump.

A Nasa official has said he’ll ’be anxious’ as Artemis II returns to earth after midnight tonight.

SpaceX prepares for next test flight of Starship — the most powerful rocket in history

Approximately 20% of the employees at the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration are expected to leave the space agency, a NASA spokesperson stated on Friday.

Dramatic pressure drops don’t make bodies pop, they make them shut down.

Kosmos 482, with a weight of 500kg, was intended to land on Venus in the 1970s, but it failed to leave orbit due to a rocket malfunction.

Americium-241 costs one fifth per watt of power compared to plutonium-238.

India’s POEM-4 experimental module disintegrated and descended into the Indian Ocean to prevent turning into space debris.

Uncrewed Spectrum test rocket’s failure seconds after blast-off said to have produced extensive data nonetheless

Two astronauts stuck in space for nearly nine months are finally on their way back to Earth.

A group of 18 low Earth orbit satellites was launched aboard the Long March-8 Y6 carrier rocket from the Hainan commercial spacecraft launch site in south China’s Hainan Province in the early hours of Wednesday.

Scientists have toyed with the idea of nuclear rockets since the 1950s. Will they finally become a reality?

Firefly Aerospace succeeded in its first attempt to land on the moon with its uncrewed Blue Ghost spacecraft on Sunday, kicking off a two-week research mission as a handful of private firms compete to reach the frontlines of a global moon race.

Villagers were shocked to see a 500kg ring of partially burnt metal fall from the sky in Kenya.

Nasa have made history after their Parker Solar aircraft survived the closest-ever approach to the Sun.

The fastest spacecraft ever is preparing to make the closest approach to the sun on Tuesday to get a better understanding of how it works.

Someone moved the UK’s oldest satellite and there appears to be no record of exactly who, when or why.

Neither NASA nor its Russian counterpart agency ROSCOSMOS are yet to disclose why it was that the four astronauts were whisked to hospital after they touched down in Florida today

Elon Musk’s huge rocket sets off on test flight before upper stage splashdown and explosion in Indian Ocean

European Space Agency testing Paralympian sprinter to see how conditions in space would affect his prosthesis