Under his leadership, Nasa is expected to accelerate human exploration of the Moon and Mars, aligning with the administration’s Space Policy Directive 1. This directive prioritises US-led missions to ...

SpaceX's Starship exploded into countless fragments of space debris as it reentered the atmosphere over the Caribbean following its seventh test flight. Listen to Story SpaceX's Starship exploded on ...

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India has also made a major push to commercialize its space sector in recent years, allowing private enterprise and easing approvals for foreign investment, which has focused on building and ...

Following the loss of the spacecraft, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) briefly announced it was slowing flights in and around Florida ... deliver payloads in space. The simulators were ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Exoplanets orbiting red dwarfs, like Wolf 359, face extreme space weather due to high levels of X-ray and ultraviolet radiation. Only planets with greenhouse ...

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This is the eighth space walk of Suni Williams' career One of the two astronauts stranded at the International Space Station (ISS) has taken their first space walk since arriving at the station ...

Jeff Bezos’ space company launched its massive new rocket for the first time, aiming to advance the Amazon founder’s lifelong space-exploration ambitions. Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket ...

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A space physics expert has warned that space junk orbiting around the Earth and flying at 18,000mph could pose a genuine threat to those on the planet below. Nottingham Trent University’s Dr Ian ...

and crossed the official boundary into space a few minutes later. Shortly after, a second-stage burn placed the rocket’s upper section into orbit around the Earth. While it was the rocket’s ...