The largest and most powerful rocket ever built has blasted off from Texas but blew up within minutes in a test flight that its makers, SpaceX, hope will be the first step on a human journey to Mars. After a…
Kenya to launch 1st operational satellite next week
Kenya will launch its first operational satellite next week in a landmark achievement for the country’s space programme, the government said on Monday. Taifa-1, or one nation in Swahili, is scheduled to be launched on April 10 on board the…
Massive asteroid passes between Earth and Moon
An asteroid large enough to destroy a city has passed between the orbits of the Earth and the Moon – luckily for us, missing both. The object, named 2023 DZ2, was discovered a month ago. As predicted by scientists, it…
Asteroid headed toward Earth may arrive on Valentine’s Day 2046 – Nasa
A newly detected asteroid has a very small chance of impacting the Earth in 2046, Nasa tweeted on Tuesday. If it does hit, the asteroid, roughly the size of an Olympic swimming pool, may arrive on Valentine’s Day 2046 according…
Space startup forced to call off launch of world’s first 3D-printed rocket
With just over a minute to go before liftoff, a California aerospace startup opted to stand down from launching the world’s first 3D-printed rocket on its inaugural test flight. Relativity Space was set to launch its Terran 1 booster Wednesday…
Buzz Aldrin marries for the 4th time, aged 93
The former US astronaut Buzz Aldrin has got married for the fourth time on his 93rd birthday. Mr Aldrin was one of the pilots on the legendary Apollo 11 spaceflight in 1969, becoming one of the first two people to…
Walter Cunningham, last surviving Apollo 7 astronaut, dies at age 90
Walter Cunningham, the last surviving astronaut from the first successful crewed space mission in Nasa’s Apollo program, has died. He was 90. A Nasa spokesman, Bob Jacobs, confirmed Cunningham’s death but did not immediately provide further details. Cunningham’s wife, Dot…
Disabled man joins European Space Agency’s astronaut programme
A disabled British man has been chosen for astronaut training by Europe’s space agency, a world first. John McFall, 41, joined 16 men and women selected for the European Space Agency’s (Esa) first new class of astronauts in 13 years.…
Zimbabwe launches first satellite into space — Report
Zimbabwe state-run Herald newspaper on Tuesday reported that Zimbabwe first satellite, ZimSat-1, has been successfully launched into space. ZimSat-1, a nanosatellite, was launched to the International Space Station (ISS) on Monday. It was successfully launched from the United States National…
Unique radio signal detected billions of light-years from Earth
Astronomers believe they may have found a neutron star several billions of light-years from Earth by monitoring a consistent unique radio signal called fast radio bursts (FRB) which are strong flashes of radio waves that typically only last for a…