An Israeli spacecraft has taken the ultimate selfie on its roundabout journey to the moon. Organisers for the privately funded mission released the photo on Tuesday, one-and-a-half weeks after its launch.
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No-one was on board the Dragon capsule that launched Saturday on its first test flight, only an instrumented dummy.
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon unmanned craft successfully docked with the International Space Station on Sunday, a key milestone for CEO Elon Musk, his team and the American space agency.
SpaceX launched an unmanned Crew Dragon craft from Florida to the International Space Station early on Saturday, a milestone for Elon Musk’s goal of enabling humans to live on other planets.
An Israeli spacecraft rocketed toward the moon for the country’s first attempted lunar landing, following a launch on Thursday night by SpaceX.
A harpoon designed to spear through space junk and capture it has been tested in space for the first time.
The role of public research institutions like science councils in national innovation systems has been diminishing in most developed countries.
Nasa’s longest-running rover on Mars, Opportunity, has been pronounced dead – 15 years after it landed on the Red Planet.
North is not quite where it used to be. Earth’s North Magnetic Pole has been drifting so fast in the last few decades that scientists say past estimates are no longer accurate enough for precise navigation.
Glue-like substances secreted by bacteria are sticking tiny particles of plastic together in the ocean to form larger masses, scientists have discovered.