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"Space hotel" successfully added to ISS

The Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) has been successfully attached onto the International Space Station (ISS). A NASA ground-control team

17/04/2016

Russia

Stephen Hawking helps unveil interstellar travel project

A Russian billionaire has enlisted physicist Stephen Hawking to help him launch a futuristic plan for seeking life in outer space. Called the

13/04/2016

World News

International Space Station gears up for new 'space hotel'

Every few months the crew on board the International Space Station are used to receiving food, clothes, scientific and computer material, and other

06/04/2016

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Flying high

NASA releases beautiful time-lapse video of the Earth’s horizon as seen from the International Space Station

06/04/2016

Russia

ExoMars mission leaves Earth's orbit heading for Mars

After a successful launch, the joint European-Russian mission to sniff out signs of life on Mars has left Earth’s orbit and is heading for the Red

14/03/2016

USA

Record-breaking astronaut Scott Kelly to retire

Record-holding astronaut Scott Kelly is to retire from NASA on April 1, the agency reports. The American made history after spending almost a year on

12/03/2016

World

Methane the key to life for ExoMars 2016 mission

Scientists from the European Space Agency and Russia’s Federal Space Agency face a weekend of intense tinkering ahead of Monday’s ExoMars mission

11/03/2016

USA

Most distant galaxy ever seen - 13.4 billion light years away

Scientists at the space agency NASA say the Hubble telescope has detected a galaxy 13.4 billion light years away. It’s the most distant galaxy ever

04/03/2016

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Back to gravity

A Soyuz capsule carrying NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko and Sergey Volkov landed in Kazakhstan on Wednesday

03/03/2016

Kazakhstan

Astronaut Scott Kelly returns to Earth after longest US space mission

An American astronaut and Russian cosmonaut have returned to Earth after an unprecedented period of almost a year in space for NASA. The time spent

02/03/2016

Kazakhstan

NASA spaceman Scott Kelly returns to Earth after record breaking ISS stint

NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko have arrived back on Earth after nearly a year aboard the International Space

02/03/2016

World News

{Watch} Stunning new image of the Milky Way released

A stunning new image of the Milky Way has been released. What is known as the APEX telescope in Chile has captured the full area of the Galactic

25/02/2016

Russia

Europe launches Sentinel-3A satellite to help track global warming

Europe has launched a satellite it is hoped will help predict climate change patterns as well as improve everyday weather forecasting. The

16/02/2016

Italy

Einstein was right! Scientists confirm that gravitational waves exist

In a landmark discovery for studying the cosmos, researchers have for the first time detected gravitational waves, ripples in space and time which

11/02/2016

World News

Gravitational waves detected for the first time

Scientists have been trying to detect gravitational waves, or ripples in the fabric of space-time, ever since Albert Einstein published his theory

11/02/2016

Kazakhstan

First part of new space 'data highway' blasts off from Kazakhstan

A new space “data highway” has taken a giant leap forward. The first building block of the European Data Relay Satellite (EDRS), a node, has blasted

30/01/2016

World

How the Challenger disaster changed space exploration forever

It was the disaster that injected a shot of realism into space exploration ambitions and whose impact is still being felt today. Thirty years ago the

20/01/2016

USA

SpaceX launches ocean monitoring satellite

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from California on Sunday putting a climate-monitoring satellite into orbit. The Jason-3 will help improve our

18/01/2016

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Astronaut Tim Peake becomes the first Briton to walk in space

Major Tim Peake made history on Friday, January 15, becoming the first Briton to walk in space. The 43-year-old ventured out of the International

16/01/2016

United Kingdom

Briton Tim Peake's historic ISS spacewalk is cut short

Tim Peake has become the first astronaut representing Britain to walk in space. But the ex-army major’s trip outside the International Space Station

15/01/2016