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Space

Chinese astronauts arrive on Earth after space debris delayed return

The original return plan was scrapped because a window in the Shenzhou-20 capsule had tiny cracks, most likely caused by impact from space debris, the space agency said on Friday.

14/11/2025

Space

Stranded Chinese astronauts ‘in good condition,’ officials say

The astronauts’ scheduled return to Earth was aborted earlier this month.

11/11/2025

Space

Blue Origin’s second megarocket launch postponed due to weather

The rocket launch scheduled for Sunday afternoon was scrubbed due to weather. Blue Origin says its next launch will take place no earlier than 12 November.

10/11/2025

Tech News

What is the ‘Moon economy?’

Some of the world’s space agencies are getting ready for commercial activity on the Moon.

15/10/2025

Voices from Central Asia

Meet Toktar Aubakirov, Kazakhstan’s first cosmonaut and national hero

In partnership with MDQ

Kazakhstan’s first cosmonaut, Toktar Aubakirov, recalls his historic 1991 spaceflight and the pride it sparked across his nation.

17/09/2025

Health news

Going to space could speed up biological ageing, NASA study finds

Human blood cells that were sent into space began losing their ability to make healthy new cells, in a sign of accelerated ageing, the study found.

05/09/2025

Space

How space is becoming the new battlefield

Between hijacked satellites and orbiting space weapons, space is the next frontier in the fight for global dominance.

18/08/2025

World News

Iran sends telecom satellite Nahid-2 into orbit on Russian rocket

The Soyuz-2.1b rocket blasted off from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Siberia on Friday morning, carrying the Nahid-2 satellite and 18 other small payloads, according to Iranian state media.

25/07/2025

Space

China spacecraft aims to return with 'groundbreaking' asteroid samples

The Tianwen-2 probe, which was launched on Thursday, represents a "significant step in China’s new journey of interplanetary exploration".

30/05/2025

Culture news

Strauss' Blue Danube waltz beams into space for his 200th birthday

To mark the 200th birthday of Austrian composer Johann Strauss II, the country is sending his iconic waltz, The Blue Danube, into space - decades after it was left off the Voyager Golden Record.

30/05/2025

Europe in Motion

Space junk: Which European country poses the highest collision risk?

Experts say space junk re-entering Earth's atmosphere could jump to 15 objects a day within 10 years.

06/05/2025

Art

First artist on the moon Paul Van Hoeydonck dies aged 99

Belgian artist Paul Van Hoeydonck has died aged 99. For decades he had the honour of being the first and only person to have a work of art on the moon.

05/05/2025

Space

Soviet-era spacecraft from Venus mission expected to crash to Earth

The Soviet Union launched the spacecraft known as Kosmos 482 in 1972, one of a series of Venus missions.

02/05/2025

Space

China steps up space race with another successful rocket launch

Three astronauts have been sent to China's own space station to replace the current crew in a bid to reach the moon or even Mars.

24/04/2025

Space

Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi handed over command of the ISS

A change of command ceremony was held on the International Space Station as Russian cosmonaut Aleksey Ovchinin handed over the keys to the ISS to Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi.

19/04/2025

Space

Katy Perry and all-female crew blasts into space on Blue Origin rocket

The last all-female crew sent to space was in 1963 by the Russians. Among the crew on Monday's flight was singer Katy Perry and TV host Gayle King.

14/04/2025

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US-Russian crew lifts off to ISS for 8-month mission

Two Russian cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut launched on Tuesday aboard a Soyuz spacecraft for an eight-month research mission at the International Space Station.

08/04/2025

Space

US astronaut and Russian crewmates dock at International Space Station

US astronaut Jonny Kim and two Russian crewmates took off from the Russia-leased Baikonur facility in Kazakhstan in a Russian Soyuz rocket.

08/04/2025

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All-civilian crew orbits Earth from pole to pole in SpaceX mission

The mission is expected to last between three and five days, with the crew orbiting Earth multiple times from the north to the south pole at an altitude of around 450 km.

03/04/2025

Space

In pictures: ESA spacecraft beams back stunning new images of Mercury

The joint European-Japanese mission is only the second survey of Mercury, the least explored planet in the inner solar system.

15/01/2025