They were custom made for each astronaut and sewn by expert seamstresses who learned to stitch multiple layers of synthetic ...

Future space settlers will have to learn to inhabit their own inner world long before reaching an alien one, a form of mental self-sufficiency that could become just as valuable as performing flawless ...

Almost anyone who has looked into the night sky has wondered if we could ever travel to the stars. Today, for the first time in history, we might be only decades away from sending a spacecraft to a ...

It has been a busy year already this year for satellite firms wanting to establish their global internet networks in space. Earlier in January, SpaceX launched 60 more satellites of its Starlink ...

A cloth and some glue might not seem a high-tech way in which to fix a hole in a spacecraft orbiting above Earth, but that is how astronauts filled the breach on a Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft docked to the ...

At the 13th European Space Conference held this week both in Brussels and with an on-line presence, the Portuguese Space Agency has said it is looking at building a spaceport on the Azores islands.

Strategic space marketing firm AstroAgency has been nominated for two awards in the 2021 Sir Arthur Clarke Awards which will be presented during a gala dinner organised by the British Interplanetary ...

The ingredients that make up dark matter, the elusive substance which makes up around 80 percent of the Universe, has eluded scientists for decades, but now a newly identified sub-atomic particle ...

This week the Massachusetts Institute of technology (MIT) hosted the first TESS Science conference dedicated to the multitude of discoveries NASA’s planet hunting telescope has helped uncover in its ...

Miniaturised satellites made up of multiples of 10 x 10 x 10 centimetre cubic units have made a huge impact on space research since their introduction in 1999. Better known as CubeSats, these small ...

Japan successfully tested a rocket engine that was propelled by shock waves produced by burning a mixture of methane and oxygen gases, the country’s space agency said Tuesday. Known officially as a ...

The Israeli company Helios has said it plans to join ispace, Japan’s lunar exploration firm, on its second and third missions to the moon to demonstrate in situ extraction of oxygen and metal that can ...