Space exploration
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04.04.20230 101
Richard Branson’s rocket firm files for bankruptcy
Virgin Orbit failed to secure the funding it needed to recover from the failure of its last mission © Getty Images…
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04.04.20230 98
NASA names moon mission crew
Three Americans and a Canadian will eventually embark on a trip to lunar orbit Artemis II crew (left to right):…
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03.04.20230 103
China hits space milestone
The country’s first privately built liquid-fueled rocket blasted off on Sunday A TL-2 Y1 rocket blasts off from the Jiuquan…
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28.03.20230 107
Chinese space mission leads to major lunar discovery
The Moon may hold up to 270 billion tons of water, a new study claims © Robyn Beck / AFP…
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28.03.20230 112
Photos of Gagarin’s fatal crash released
Previously unseen footage shows the 1968 jet catastrophe Yuri Gagarin pictured inside cockpit of a MiG-15 jet. © rgantd.ru The…
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23.03.20230 111
Russia launches military satellite
The rocket took off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in the northern Arkhangelsk Region FILE PHOTO: A Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket with…
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18.03.20230 117
UK funding lunar nuclear reactor
Rolls-Royce aims to have a working reactor ready to go to the Moon by 2029 A rendering of a lunar…
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13.03.20230 121
Russia launches communications satellite
The spacecraft will help facilitate data exchange between the International Space Station and Earth The launch Proton-M carrier rocket at…
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11.03.20230 112
NASA warns of possible Valentine’s Day asteroid strike
A 50-meter space rock could hit Earth in 2046, but the chances are “very small,” the US space agency said…
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07.03.20230 105
Japan destroys flagship rocket minutes after launch
The failure is considered to be a significant blow to Tokyo’s aerospace ambitions Japan’s next generation ‘H3’ rocket, carrying the…