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SpaceX gears up for the forthcoming test flight of Starship — the most potent rocket ever built

An 80-year-old thrill-seeker has been sent into space as part of Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin’s latest rocket ride.

Resilience would have made history as the first non-US commercial lander to achieve a successful touchdown.

Two astronauts who were left stranded on board the International Space Station for nine months have revealed they were almost lost in space forever when their Boeing Starliner ship malfunctioned.

The journey of Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams on a SpaceX Crew Dragon craft will be broadcast live

Two US astronauts stranded in space for nine months may struggle to walk when they finally return to Earth due to a skin condition.

Stranded NASA astronauts suffer another setback as Elon’s Musk’s SpaceX rocket launch is delayed

NASA has decreased the chances that a massive "city killer" asteroid could collide with Earth in the coming years.

A Scottish company plans to launch its rockets into space starting in 2026, following a suborbital launch attempt later this year.

Mission teams will lose direct contact with Parker probe while it passes 3.8 million miles from sun’s surface

The launch took place at Iran’s Imam Khomeini Spaceport in rural Semnan province.

Emily Calandrelli posted video sharing awe of seeing Earth, that was soon flooded with hateful, objectifying comments

Neither NASA nor its Russian counterpart agency ROSCOSMOS are yet to disclose why it was that the four astronauts were whisked to hospital after they touched down in Florida today

Elon Musk’s huge rocket sets off on test flight before upper stage splashdown and explosion in Indian Ocean

Two astronauts at International Space Station will board SpaceX rocket in September instead of Boeing Starliner

NASA’s ongoing flight tests of the Boeing Starliner manned spacecraft mark another milestone in its journey towards independence from Russian Soyuz services.

Guillermo Sohnlein, the co-founder of OceanGate, the company that built the infamous Titan submarine, claims he can send humans to Venus safely and cost-effectively by 2050

NASA astronomers are eagerly awaiting a 'once-in-a-lifetime' event that is set to create a 'new star' in the night sky at any moment between now and September

Officials have warned a potential geomagnetic storm could 'wipe out the internet' and disrupt mobile networks before the weekend for millions of people - and from as early as 4pm BST today

The blazing fireball that lit up the sky with an orange glow above the Chinese capital Beijing was also seen more than 1,000 miles away in Gansu province before it broke into smaller pieces

Dr Rosemary Coogan has followed in the footsteps of Helen Sharman and Tim Peake to qualify from Europe's astronaut training college, becoming Britain's third outer space voyager

Astronomers who spotted the Gaia BH3 - the now second-closest known black hole and 33 times the size of the sun - said no-one ever expected it to be found so close to Earth

Astronomers have discovered an enormous black hole from the supernova of an exploding star just 2,000 light years from Earth - and it is the most massive black hole in the Milky Way so far