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China launches 3-member crew to its space station as it seeks to put astronauts on the moon by 2030
China launches 3-member crew to its space station as it seeks to put astronauts on the moon by 2030
The astronauts stranded on the International Space Station are still not able to come home, Nasa has said. Two astronauts went to the space station almost 50 days ago as part of a test of Boeing’s Starliner capsule. Test pilots Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were supposed to visit the orbiting lab for about a week and return in mid-June, but thruster failures and helium leaks on Boeing‘s new Starliner capsule prompted Nasa and Boeing to keep them up longer.
Pinpoint Stars In 2003, when the International Space Station was a mere three years old, NASA astronaut Donald Pettit took a gorgeous picture of the Earth's atmosphere, with countless stars frozen in time in the background. But as Pettit revealed in a Reddit post earlier this week, the same photo "cannot be taken anymore" — […]
A 3ft by 2ft rock marked with off-white spots may offer fossilised record of microbes dating back billions of years
After weeks of testing, NASA and Boeing officials say they better understand the issues plaguing the Starliner spacecraft, but still aren’t ready to name a return date.
The rocket designed to carry the first humans to the Moon in over half a century has officially made its way to NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) just over a year ahead of its tentative launch date. The enormous, 212-foot rocket stage made its way from NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans to […]
Dwarfed The James Webb Space Telescope has captured images of a giant nearby planet whose surface is quite literally freezing. In a statement about the incredible snap, the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Germany explained that the exoplanet, named Epsilon Indi Ab for the red dwarf star system it was found in, is located […]
Mighty Likely NASA's Perseverance Rover has found a rock on Mars that scientists believe may contain signs of ancient life on the Red Planet. As the New York Times reports, NASA researchers aren't quite ready to declare that they've found definitive biosignatures — the scientific term for "signs of life" — in the piece of ancient […]
Last week, NASA made a shocking announcement. It would not be sending its $450 million rover, called the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER), to the Moon, where its state of the art capabilities were anticipated to uncover secrets about water ice just beneath the lunar surface. The reason, according to NASA officials, is that […]
Meghan Markle was given strict instructions by Prince Harry before she sat down for an interview with Vanity Fair - but the Duchess of Sussex seemingly didn't listen
Brothers confronted man who had argued with their mother on flight before pushing trolley into her, it is claimed
"Something about the question mark after 'old and quite weird' is taking me out."
New rules will see many drivers forced to pay additional tax on their vehicle from next year. The so-called 'luxury' car tax would see motorists forking out £410 each year
Fans have flocked to social media to praise the 18-episode mystery drama
The photographer who was present when Emily Maitlis interviewed Prince Andrew for BBC's Newsnight has recalled the six words the Royal said to him when the interview wrapped up
Antiques Roadshow expert Alastair Dickenson was left impressed after being shown a decorative silver box
“What happened to ‘any time, any place’?”
BBC Bargain Hunt expert Charlie Ross was left eating his words after a couple made an unexpected profit on the popular show, leading to a 'Golden Gavel' win
The Premier League winner once commanded a transfer fee of £35 million
Lee Anderson has said an armed officer who was filmed appearing to kick and stamp on a man’s head at Manchester Airport should be given a medal.
Emma's family had been told the 32-year-old was brain dead