Nasa’s New Horizons spacecraft has survived humanity’s most distant exploration of another world.
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South Africa has successfully launched into space the continent’s most advanced nanosatellite to date, the ZACube-2.
Let’s not spoil one of the largest and most fundamental experiments for humankind by letting dreams of colonisation go too far
Nasa’s new Mars lander has placed a quake monitor on the planet’s dusty red surface. The milestone occurred less than a month after Mars InSight’s touchdown.
Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic has successfully launched a tourism rocket plane into space for the first time.
Nasa’s Voyager 2 has become only the second human-made object to reach the space between stars. Nasa said on Monday that Voyager 2 exited the region of the sun’s influence last month.
It’s embarrassing, but astrophysicists are the first to admit it. Our best theoretical model can only explain 5% of the universe.
America’s next moon landing will be made by private companies, not Nasa. Nasa administrator Jim Bridenstine announced on Thursday that nine US companies will compete in delivering experiments to the lunar surface.
While most missions are designed to look at the surface or atmosphere of planetary bodies, InSight’s goal is to look deep beneath the surface.
Nasa has a date on Monday evening South African time with “six minutes of terror”, a high-stakes plunge across the surface of Mars that will hopefully end with a successful landing of the Mars InSight.