China has delayed the Chang'e-7 unmanned lunar probe after its manned space agency said the mission did not meet launch conditions for its planned launch window this year. The agency said Sunday that the decision followed a “comprehensive assessment” and was…
US President Donald Trump pledged to expand US space launches and reentries, with a White House policy aiming for more than 1,000 launches and reentries on US…
A 4.5-metre reticulated python named Jodie Foster has recovered from jaw cancer after surgery and electrochemotherapy at Chester Zoo in northwest England, the…
Astronomers have discovered a star they describe as the fastest detected in the Milky Way, orbiting the supermassive black hole at the centre of the galaxy at…
Japan's space agency said Thursday that its unmanned Martian Moons eXploration probe is scheduled to launch on October 20 on a mission to collect samples from Phobos, one of Mars's moons. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said the flagship H3 rocket carr…
NASA said Wednesday that a $30 million mission to save its Swift space telescope had failed because the rescue spacecraft could not be controlled. Swift, whic…
Human brain organoids grown in a laboratory for around seven years continued to mature and appeared to record earlier developmental steps at a cellular level,…
Chinese startup LandSpace recovered the first stage of its Zhuque-3 rocket on land on Wednesday morning, state-run Xinhua news agency reported, describing the…
NASA released new images on Tuesday showing the crater left when a SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage struck the Moon earlier this month. The photographs were taken…
Narwhal tusks grow straight because different layers twist in opposite directions, an international team of researchers said in a study published in Nature Communications. The researchers used advanced 3D X-ray technology, including European particle accelera…
French astronaut Sophie Adenot became the first French woman to carry out a spacewalk outside the International Space Station on August 18, during a nearly six…
Japan is preparing an unmanned mission to Mars' moons that aims to collect material from Phobos and return it to Earth around 2031. The Martian Moons eXploration mission, known as MMX, is set to launch from Tanegashima Space Center in the coming months. The s…
Japan's space agency said its prototype reusable rocket completed its first lift-off and landing test on July 11, reaching about 10 metres before touching down at a test site in Noshiro in the Akita region. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said the flig…
China's space agency said it recovered a reusable rocket stage for the first time on July 10, after a Long March-10B rocket launched from Hainan and placed a s…
A total eclipse plunged a broad swathe of Spain into darkness on Wednesday, drawing gasps and applause from crowds gathered across the country. The astronomical event lasted barely two minutes at most in the areas that saw totality. The shadow crossed a band…
Astronomers say they have discovered a new type of astronomical object, called a black hole star, in the early universe. The object, named MoM-BH*-1, was found by a US-led team using the James Webb Space Telescope, according to a study published in Nature. Th…
A total solar eclipse briefly darkened parts of Spain on Wednesday, giving the country its first total solar eclipse in more than a century after the same lunar shadow crossed the Arctic, Greenland and Iceland. The eclipse began over the remote Arctic region…
Vietnamese private space company VinSpace said Tuesday it will launch its first satellites in 2027 under a deal with SpaceX. VinSpace said the satellites will fly through SpaceX's Transporter rideshare programme, which allows multiple customers to share one l…
A Chinese Long March 7A rocket carrying a communications satellite failed after a flight anomaly during a launch from Hainan, Chinese state news agency Xinhua said. The rocket lifted off from the Wenchang Space Launch Site at 8:02 pm Monday (1202 GMT) with th…
The remains of a pregnant Stone Age woman and her fetus have been found in a cave on a small island off Gotland in Sweden, an archaeologist said Monday. Alexander Roesen Sjostrand, an independent researcher connected to Uppsala University, said the find was m…
Europe risks a shortage of its own-built rocket launchers by around 2030 as demand to launch satellites outpaces the region's limited capacity, European Space Agency Director General Josef Aschbacher said. Aschbacher told the Financial Times that Europe faces…
Mehmet Kusman, 86, has spent decades at the Cavustepe fortress in eastern Turkey copying and learning Urartian inscriptions, even as academics say no one can now claim to speak the ancient written language. Kusman was hired as a labourer on Cavustepe excavati…
Certified solar eclipse glasses are running short in several European countries before the total solar eclipse due on Wednesday, August 12, with shops, pharmacies and opticians reporting strong demand and eye specialists warning against unsafe alternatives. T…
Italian divers have found the 2,100-year-old wreck of a Roman ship off Sicily, with hundreds of well-preserved amphorae likely used to carry wine. Divers from the cultural heritage protection arm of Palermo's police said they located the ship on Aug. 8 about…
Researchers have identified a tiny nocturnal tree frog in Costa Rica's central Pacific region, where it lives among coffee plantations and may face risks from farm chemicals. The greenish, dark-spotted amphibian measures less than four centimeters and is know…
A UK observatory is tracking a growing field of satellites and space junk in Earth's orbit, providing data for Britain's efforts to prevent collisions and monitor debris returning through the atmosphere. Chilbolton Observatory in southern England, operated by…
Scientists plan to use the August 12 total solar eclipse, visible along a narrow path including northern Spain, as a rare chance to study the Sun's atmosphere, magnetic field and solar weather. The eclipse will briefly darken a route from northern Russia thro…
A SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage crashed into the Moon as predicted on Wednesday, scientists said, after a telescope in Chile detected evidence of debris from the impact. The European Southern Observatory said its Very Large Telescope recorded spectral lines fro…