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    • Monday, 5 June, 2023
      European Space Agency
      European agency aims to develop spacecraft to take astronauts to Moon

      ESA director-general outlines plan to develop independent human launch capability within a decade

    • Tuesday, 30 May, 2023
      China sends first civilian into orbit as Xi pursues ‘eternal dream’

      Shenzhou-16 mission precedes plans to land taikonauts on Moon by 2030

    • Wednesday, 26 April, 2023
      Inside BusinessPeggy Hollinger
      Starship enterprise: the economics of Elon Musk’s bold bet

      Does the satellite industry actually need the enormous capacity that SpaceX has to offer?

    • Thursday, 20 April, 2023
      Space Exploration Technologies Corp
      SpaceX rocket explodes before reaching orbit

      Failure to separate from booster leads to setback for Elon Musk-led company building spacecraft capable of flying to Mars

    • Monday, 17 April, 2023
      Space Exploration Technologies Corp
      Elon Musk’s SpaceX calls off first attempt at Starship launch

      Mission represents important step in billionaire’s quest to take humans to Mars

    • Friday, 14 April, 2023
      Juice spacecraft begins eight-year voyage to Jupiter after successful launch

      Complex mission will search for signs of ocean life on icy moons close to solar system’s biggest planet

    • Saturday, 11 March, 2023
      Japan’s space ambitions fizzle after rocket failure

      Decade-long effort was source of national pride and meant to be symbol of technological prowess

    • Saturday, 4 March, 2023
      Scientists launch new initiative to look for extraterrestrial life

      Astrobiologists believe simple organisms pervade the universe but advanced civilisations are extremely rare

    • Monday, 27 February, 2023
      InterviewThe Henry Mance Interview
      Tim Peake: ‘I do not see us having a problem getting to Mars’

      The Henry Mance Interview | The British astronaut is convinced that humans will live on the Red Planet

    • Monday, 20 February, 2023
      ReviewArts
      The Last Soviet — podcast tells the fascinating story of a lone cosmonaut

      New series hosted by a former pop star goes back to 1991 and the collapse of the USSR

    • Friday, 10 February, 2023
      Europe’s boldest space mission to search for life in outer solar system

      Juice spacecraft’s ambitious 12-year voyage will observe Jupiter and three of its moons

    • Thursday, 29 December, 2022
      Lex
      Blue sky thinking: Dart defender hits the meteoric mark Premium content

      US space agency’s test altered asteroid’s orbit by about 1%

    • Wednesday, 30 November, 2022
      High ambition as business schools launch space programmes

      As exploration booms, courses are teaching how to back innovation with business nous

    • Wednesday, 23 November, 2022
      European Space Agency
      Disabled surgeon among 17 European trainee astronauts

      Group unveiled as ministers agree to raise space spending by 17% over the next five years

    • Wednesday, 16 November, 2022
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      SpaceX/Musk: Nasa Artemis launch accelerates hunt for star bucks Premium content

      Elon Musk’s fundraising skills are impressive but his ambitious goals may take longer than his timeline suggests

    • Wednesday, 16 November, 2022
      Nasa successfully launches delayed mission to Moon

      Uncrewed US spacecraft heads for lunar orbit in build-up to mid-decade astronaut landing

    • Thursday, 27 October, 2022
      Mars meteorite smashes reveal insights into red planet

      Data from two Nasa missions shows it may hold more subsurface ice than scientists previously thought

    • Tuesday, 11 October, 2022
      Nasa says probe deflected asteroid’s path more than expected

      US space agency declares success in mission testing technology that could divert deadly objects

    • Tuesday, 27 September, 2022
      Anjana Ahuja
      Deflecting asteroids is only one thing on humanity’s worry list

      Nasa’s mission gives hope we can defend our planet but human nature and technology present risks of their own

    • Tuesday, 27 September, 2022
      Nasa successfully smashes satellite into asteroid in first deflection mission

      Dart strikes target 11mn km away in test of new technology to protect Earth from future threats

    • Monday, 12 September, 2022
      Blue Origin LLC
      Bezos’s Blue Origin rocket bursts into flames during uncrewed mission

      New Shepard grounded until the US aviation regulator finishes an investigation of the incident

    • Monday, 29 August, 2022
      Nasa cancels launch of Moon mission after engine trouble

      Last-minute scrub of Artemis rocket delays effort to return astronauts to lunar surface

    • Friday, 22 July, 2022
      Martin Rees
      The future of space exploration belongs to robots and billionaires

      We may be nostalgic about astronauts but our scientific abilities have leapfrogged our physical ones

    • Thursday, 21 July, 2022
      Special ReportJapan and Sustainability
      Astroscale: on a mission to clean up space junk

      By developing technology to remove debris, the Japanese company hopes to help shape space governance rules

    • Friday, 15 July, 2022
      John Gapper
      The Webb space telescope takes snapshots of the sublime

      Nasa’s translation of infrared light into colour is like making a digitally doctored photo of deep space

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