Space

A scene from the cabin of SpaceShipTwo on Thursday, looking down on Earth from an altitude of about 50 miles (80km). Photo: Virgin Galactic

Breakthrough as Virgin Galactic launches humans into space

It is the first US launch to carry humans into space since Nasa’s shuttle programme ended in 2011, and is the first US commercial operation to do so ever.

14 Dec 2018 - 2:29am

Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko conducts a spacewalk outside the International Space Station Space (ISS). Photo: Nasa

Russian cosmonauts take sample of mystery hole at space station

12 Dec 2018 - 12:02pm

A November 16 photo from Nasa’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows the asteroid Bennu from a distance of 136km. The image, taken by the PolyCam camera, shows Bennu at 300 pixels and has been stretched to increase contrast between highlights and shadows. Photo: AFP

Nasa probe finds water on asteroid Bennu

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11 Dec 2018 - 5:48am

Dave Mackay, chief pilot for Virgin Galactic, climbs in the simulator for a test flight at the Virgin Galactic headquarters on October 9, 2018 in Mojave. Photo: Washington Post photo by Jonathan Newton

Want to go to space in 2019 with Virgin Galactic? Pack courage and US$250,000

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Cape Canaveral carrying a payload bound for the International Space Station. Photo: AP

Christmas comes early for International Space Station astronauts

8 Dec 2018 - 9:40pm

Chang’e 4 launches China’s bid to be first on dark side of the moon

Chang’e 4 launches China’s bid to be first on dark side of the moon

8 Dec 2018 - 11:06pm 18

This November 16, 2018, image provide by Nasa shows the asteroid Bennu. After a two-year chase, a Nasa spacecraft has arrived at the ancient asteroid. Photo: Nasa / Goddard / University of Arizona via AP

Deep space probe reaches asteroid deemed potential threat to Earth

4 Dec 2018 - 10:24pm 3

The Russian Soyuz booster rocket after lifting off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on December 3, 2018. Photo: EPA

Astronauts blast-off to ISS in first launch since Russian rocket failure

3 Dec 2018 - 9:18pm

From left, the main crew members US astronaut Anne McClain, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, Canadian astronaut David Saint Jacques, and the members of the backup crew members US astronaut Andrew Morgan, Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Skvortsov, Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano attend a news conference pose during a news conference in Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Sunday, December 2, 2018. Photo: AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky

Astronauts say look forward to space launch after Soyuz accident

3 Dec 2018 - 1:19am

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches carrying a Qatari communications satellite, which will provide connectivity to Qatar and neighbouring parts of the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe. Photo: Reuters

SpaceX has a ‘steady stream’ of small-satellite customers

2 Dec 2018 - 7:06am

After the moon, Mars is being targeted for manned missions in the coming decades, mainly by China and the US. Photo: AFP/Nasa

Work together on a mission to Mars

1 Dec 2018 - 9:29pm 1

Nasa’s InSight lander on Mars on November 26, 2018. Photo: Nasa/JPL-Caltech/Reuters

Slightly wonky landing for Nasa’s Martian quake probe

1 Dec 2018 - 10:31pm

The rocket takes off from its launch pad at the Naro Space Centre in Goheung. Photo: AP

South Korea space programme gets a boost with rocket test launch

28 Nov 2018 - 10:01pm

Nasa’s new Mars spacecraft lands after ‘six-and-a-half minutes of terror’

New Nasa spacecraft lands on Mars

27 Nov 2018 - 11:59am

Nasa’s InSight spacecraft takes first ‘selfie’ after flawless landing on Mars

Nasa spacecraft takes first ‘selfie’ after flawless Mars landing

27 Nov 2018 - 9:19pm 19

Elon Musk: ‘Your probability of dying on Mars is much higher than on Earth’. Photo: AFP

Musk considers move to Mars despite ‘good chance of death’

26 Nov 2018 - 10:41pm 7

This illustration shows InSight's descent towards the Mars surface. Photo: AFP

Mars landing comes down to nail-biting final 6 minutes of trip

25 Nov 2018 - 9:19pm 2

Russian scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky first described the idea of a space elevator in 1895. Photo: Alamy

Chinese team says it has the key to building a space elevator. A what?

23 Nov 2018 - 2:32am 13

Nasa considers selling rocket trips to wealthy space tourists

Nasa considers selling rocket trips to wealthy space tourists

20 Nov 2018 - 10:00pm 2

China launches a hypersonic aircraft, the Starry Sky-2, on a test flight on August 3. The craft could carry nuclear warheads at six times the speed of sound. Photo: Science and Technology Daily

Why China’s hypersonic missile tech has the US dusting off Star Wars

13 Nov 2018 - 4:39am 56

A screen grab from the arms-control advocacy video Slaughterbots. Photo: YouTube

China’s brightest children recruited to develop AI ‘killer bots’

8 Nov 2018 - 11:34pm 73

Was it sent by aliens? The curious case of the giant space rock

Was it sent by aliens? The curious case of the giant space rock

7 Nov 2018 - 9:36pm

The flight suit Neil Armstrong wore aboard Gemini 8, the 1966 mission that performed the first docking of two spacecraft in flight. Photo: AP

Neil Armstrong memorabilia fetches US$7.5 million at auction

5 Nov 2018 - 1:26am

Airbus staff prepares the European Service Module (ESM) for the US spacecraft Orion in Bremen, Germany on November 1, 2018. Photo: Reuters

Airbus delivers ‘powerhouse’ for Nasa that will take humans beyond moon

2 Nov 2018 - 10:59pm

The Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft carrying American Nick Hague and Russian Alexey Ovchinin blasting off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on October 11, 2018. Photo: Reuters

Russia: Soyuz launch failure due to ‘deformation’ during assembly

1 Nov 2018 - 6:28pm

A man is silhouetted against the illuminated inside of a small cabin with a view of the Milky Way dominating the sky over the Ormont Valley, Switzerland. Photo: EPA

Milky Way was shaped by mega-merger 10 billion years ago

1 Nov 2018 - 6:18am 1

The world's largest radio telescope has already discovered 53 stars but is struggling to attract researchers to its remote location in a mountainous region of China. Photo: Handout

Hiring scramble for world’s largest telescope in remote China

31 Oct 2018 - 10:33pm 17

Nasa’s Kepler space telescope retires after discovering more than 2,600 planets

Lost in space: Nasa’s Kepler telescope runs out of fuel

31 Oct 2018 - 9:32pm

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