Space

This computer graphics image shows an asteroid and asteroid explorer Hayabusa2. Photo: AP

Japanese space robots have landed on asteroid in world first

A pair of robot rovers have landed on an asteroid and begun a survey, Japan’s space agency said Saturday, as it conducts a mission aiming to shed light on the origins of the solar system.

22 Sep 2018 - 10:12pm

A JAXA computer generated image of the two biscuit-tin-shaped solar-powered rovers on the surface of the asteroid. Photo: AP

Japanese space probe shoots hopping rovers at asteroid

21 Sep 2018 - 7:21pm

Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, at Monday’s press conference where he hinted he may travel on board its Big Falcon Rocket on the mission to travel to the moon and back, which could take place in 2023. Photo: AP

‘I’ll fly me to the moon, maybe’, says SpaceX founder Elon Musk

21 Sep 2018 - 10:28pm

Yusaku Maezawa, CEO of online fashion retailer Zozo, bought all the seats on board and hopes to blast-off accompanied by group of artists – possibly in 2023

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20 Sep 2018 - 10:41am

A prospective view of Earth from the Axiom Space Station, which could launch in 2022. Photo: Axiom Space

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18 Sep 2018 - 8:10pm

An image of the Earth and the lunar surface sent back by the Chang’e 4’s relay satellite as it orbited the moon. Photo: Xinhua

China’s moon missions and how it achieved its first lunar landing

15 Sep 2018 - 2:16pm 17

In this file photo taken on September 28, 2017, billionaire entrepreneur and founder of SpaceX Elon Musk speaks in below a computer-generated illustration of the BFR rocket at the 68th International Astronautical Congress 2017 in Adelaide, Australia. Photo: Agence France-Presse

SpaceX signs first tourist to fly around moon. Details are up in air

14 Sep 2018 - 11:21am

In this image made from video provided by Nasa, cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev flings a Sirius nano-satellite into orbit from the International Space Station on Wednesday, August 15. Photo: AP

Was it sabotage? Russian chief’s shock suspicion about space station leak

5 Sep 2018 - 8:48pm 2

Ryan Gosling playing Neil Armstrong in the film ‘First Man’. Photo: AP

Neil Armstrong biopic ‘unpatriotic’ for not showing US flag-planting

1 Sep 2018 - 5:03pm 2

Astronaut candidate Robb Kulin has resigned halfway through his two years of training at Johnson Space Centre in Houston. Photo: AP

For first time in 50 years, astronaut quits Nasa training

29 Aug 2018 - 12:36pm

A radar image of Tiangong-1 as it approached Earth and burned up. Photo: EPA

China’s first space station Tiangong-1: the story of its life and death

25 Aug 2018 - 12:43pm

Mike Pence: Nasa should establish permanent US moon presence

Pence aims for the moon

24 Aug 2018 - 8:09pm

Professor Yung Kai-leung, the university’s chair professor of precision engineering, with a prototype of the camera on Wednesday. Photo: Dickson Lee

PolyU Mars camera to withstand shocks 6,200 times force of gravity

22 Aug 2018 - 8:41pm 3

An artist's impression of the exoplanet Kelt-9B (right) and its star. Artwork: Nasa/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC)

This ‘insane’ planet is so hot its air is vaporised titanium

16 Aug 2018 - 9:38pm

Modi said India will become the fourth country after Russia, the United States and China to achieve the feat

India will send manned flight into space by 2022, PM declares

15 Aug 2018 - 9:49pm 9

A unit of the China Academy of Space Technology (pictured) is one of the sponsors of the new space breeding centre. Photo: Handout

China sends seeds into space to grow trees that can help hold back desert

14 Aug 2018 - 10:38pm 1

With this mission, scientists hope to unlock the many mysteries of the sun, a commonplace yellow dwarf star around 4.5 billion years old

Fly baby girl, fly: Nasa launches solar probe to examine the sun

12 Aug 2018 - 11:31pm 1

An artist’s impression of the sun-bound Parker Solar Probe. Photo: Nasa /Johns Hopkins APL / Agence France-Presse

This spacecraft is about to embark on terrifying mission to the sun

10 Aug 2018 - 12:36pm

US vice-president Mike Pence speaks about the proposed creation of a new branch of the military, Space Force, at the Pentagon in Washington on Thursday. Photo: AFP

Pence says ‘the time has come’ for a US Space Force

10 Aug 2018 - 3:31am 12

File photo of US President Donald Trump after signing a Space Policy Directive at the White House. Photo: Washington Post

Trump’s ‘Space Force’ up in the air due to Pentagon resistance

4 Aug 2018 - 9:03pm 6

Mars opposition and blood moon lunar eclipse: look to the skies for a rare celestial event

Explaining the blood moon lunar eclipse

28 Jul 2018 - 8:09am 3

Hubble Space Telescope took this snapshot of Mars 11 hours before the planet made its closest approach to Earth. Photo: Reuters

Underground lake found on Mars, raising possibility of life

25 Jul 2018 - 10:08pm 1

Do you want to commemorate your nuptials in a unique way? Now you can send a wedding plaque into space. Photo: Kyodo

Reach for the stars: Japan start-up commemorates your wedding in space

25 Jul 2018 - 3:17pm

This month is a special treat for astronomy enthusiasts, with the longest total lunar eclipse of the century – and a blood moon – on July 28 coinciding with the time when Mars comes closest to the Earth

Double treat for stargazers: longest lunar eclipse plus visible Mars

24 Jul 2018 - 10:48pm

Artist’s impression of Nasa’s solar probe spacecraft approaching the sun. Photo: AP

Nasa prepares to fly probe into the Sun’s scorching atmosphere

21 Jul 2018 - 8:16pm

Nasa's Juno spacecraft captures Jupiter's southern hemisphere, as the spacecraft performed its 13th close fly-by of Jupiter on May 23, 2018. Photo: Nasa via Reuters

12 new moons found around Jupiter, but one is on a suicidal orbit

18 Jul 2018 - 9:18am

The race to cash in on the satellite-launching industry is heating up around the world, with spaceports also planned from Canada to Alaska to Guam

Britain to join space race, building launch site in northern Scotland

16 Jul 2018 - 9:02pm

This December 12, 2017, handout photograph provided by Blue Origin shows the New Shepard Booster landing on a pad in West Texas after a successful test flight. Photo: Agence France-Presse

Space tourism with Virgin and Blue Origin, months away yet worlds apart

13 Jul 2018 - 11:03pm 1

‘One hundred billion neutrinos go through your thumbnail every second, but in all likelihood not a single one of them will ever hit an atom of your thumb in your lifetime’

Scientists trace distant origin of ghostly neutrino particles

13 Jul 2018 - 11:03pm

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