The huge antenna for Europe's newly launched Biomass forest-monitoring satellite has been successfully deployed, a big ...

NASA budget proposal would slash around US$6 billion (£4.4 billion) in funding. This is a huge reduction, amounting to around ...

Playmobil is inspiring kids (and adults) to imagine their future on the moon through a new play set produced in partnership ...

A failed Soviet spacecraft has crashed back down to Earth during an 'uncontrolled re-entry' after being stuck in space for 53 ...

Kosmos 482 rocketed into space in 1972 on a quest to reach Venus, but its journey was scuttled by an apparent engine malfunction.

After initial positioning by ground control, the satellite duo’s autonomous system of cameras, LEDs, and laser rangefinders ...

After more than half a century orbiting Earth, the Soviet-era space probe Cosmos 482 has brought its long and ultimately ...

Massive ripples in the very fabric of space and time wash over Earth constantly, although you'd never notice. An astrophysicist is trying a new search for these gravitational waves.

Every launch into Earth’s orbit now adds to a dangerous congestion of junk, making space less navigable by the year. Despite ...

A corner of Wester Ross is playing a significant role in the European Space Agency (ESA) mission to land a robotic rover on ...