A Nasa-led international satellite mission was set to blast off from southern California early on Thursday on a major Earth science project.
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Nasa’s Orion capsule barrelled through Earth’s atmosphere and splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on Sunday after making an uncrewed voyage around the moon.
Nasa’s Orion spacecraft has captured a stunning photo of the Earth and moon from a point in space further from our home planet than any such craft built for human space travel has ventured thus far.
China plans to build a base on the moon by 2028 as the country steps up its challenge to Nasa’s dominance in space exploration.
Nasa’s huge, next-generation rocket ship was on course on Wednesday for a crew-less voyage around the moon and back.
About 11.5 billion years ago, a distant star roughly 530 times larger than our sun died in a cataclysmic explosion
A new deep-space ground station being built in the Karoo region will come online by 2025 to help track history-making Nasa missions.
Nasa’s Dart spacecraft successfully slammed into a distant asteroid at hypersonic speed early on Tuesday in the world’s first test of a planetary defence system.
Citing a stubborn fuel leak, the space agency said the debut mission of its moon-to-Mars Artemis programme will be delayed by at least several weeks.
SpaceX will launch five more astronaut missions to the International Space Station for Nasa at the end of the decade under a $1.4-billion contract.