Space bosses hailed Europe’s return to space after the Ariane 6 rocket successfully carried out a series of trials in a debut flight.
In 6½-hour mission, two crew spacewalk to install shields against debris and photograph the station’s exterior.
Polytechnic University also says it recently secured loan of lunar soil samples collected by Chang’e-5 mission in 2020.
Washington’s accusations are clearly driven more by its fear of the US losing its tech hegemony than by China overtaking it.
The first Barbie, the one that orbited Earth, the Barbie in a pink spacesuit – London’s Design Museum will mark Barbie’s 65th anniversary with an exhibition that includes Barbies with space links.
The second launch of Japan’s H3 rocket went smoothly as it carried a satellite toward low-Earth orbit.
Company says kerosene-liquid oxygen-propelled rocket launched unexpectedly and crashed in hills, with no casualties.
The US began discussions about protecting ‘relics’ from the Apollo 11 mission after Chinese lunar rovers started operating, state TV told.
The firm will build a vehicle capable of pushing the orbiting facility back down to Earth’s atmosphere when it’s time to retire the station.
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A new gamma-ray burst detector has blasted into space as it keeps an eye out for the intense astronomical phenomenon.
Outlining its lunar plan, the Chinese space agency has declared for the first time it ‘will compete’ with the US.
A galaxy 300 million light years from Earth has started shining brightly – a sign that the once-sleeping ‘giant monster’ has begun to feast.
The Chang’e-6 mission’s cargo is expected to yield a wealth of research but debate is growing about what language it will be published in first.
Rocket passes first propulsion system test, putting Chinese space programme on track to send humans to the moon by 2030.
In a story sure to inspire others, the city is no longer just an observer cheering for heroes from mainland China as they conquer new frontiers.
Space science may be one area that can escape the intense rivalry between China and the West.
US Space Force teams detected an object released by the experimental reusable craft on its third mission.
The 90-year-old was alone in the aircraft that plunged into the waters off the San Juan Islands in Washington state.
A Boeing Starliner capsule carrying its first ever astronauts docked with the International Space Station after overcoming unexpected challenges arising from thruster malfunctions and helium leaks.
The previous three test flights ended in explosions of the rocket and the spacecraft. This time, both managed to splash down in a controlled fashion.
A pair of Nasa test pilots blasted off aboard Boeing’s Starliner capsule for the International Space Station, the first to fly the new spacecraft.
Details of a 2022 space mission by a Chinese satellite could add to America’s concern over Beijing’s space power.
The death of Alexandra Chan’s father, a Chinese-American engineer for Kodak, so devastated her she began writing a memoir of him, and learned that her grief ran far deeper than the death of a parent.
