Space

The BepiColombo standing in position at a test facility in Spijkenisse. Its mission to Mercury is scheduled for launch on an Ariane 5 from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana on October 20. Photo: AFP Photo

Europe, Japan ready spacecraft for 7-year journey to Mercury

Final preparations were underway on Friday for the launch of a joint mission by European and Japanese space agencies to send twin probes to Mercury, the closest planet to the sun.

19 Oct 2018 - 9:55pm 1

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Head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin (centre) with astronauts Alexey Ovchinin of Russia and Nick Hague of the US, who survived the mid-air failure of a Russian rocket. Photo: Handout

Aborted launch crew may head to space station this year: Nasa says

12 Oct 2018 - 11:36pm 1

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Space crew survives Soyuz rocket failure

12 Oct 2018 - 2:43pm

On-board video camera shows Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin (left) and American Nasa astronaut Nick Hague during the launch of the Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft on October 11, 2018. Photo: EPA

Russia opens criminal probe into failed rocket launch

11 Oct 2018 - 10:55pm 18

Billionaire entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson – who bought himself Necker Island in the British Virgin Islands for about US$320,000 dollars in 1979 – hopes to send wealthy travellers on suborbital space flights aboard his Virgin Galactic spacecraft. Photo: Fred Prouser

An US$8 million preserved shark and 9 other things billionaires buy

11 Oct 2018 - 3:01pm

Billionaire entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson – who bought himself Necker Island in the British Virgin Islands for about US$320,000 dollars in 1979 – hopes to send wealthy travellers on suborbital space flights aboard his Virgin Galactic spacecraft. Photo: Fred Prouser

An US$8 million preserved shark and 9 other things billionaires buy

11 Oct 2018 - 1:02pm

Yusaku Maezawa with a miniature rocket and space helmet. Photo: AFP

Tycoon has SpaceX ticket booked, hopes training won’t be too hard

9 Oct 2018 - 9:10pm

European astronauts hope to take part in missions to China’s space station. Photo: Thomas Pesquet via AP

Europe’s astronauts learning Mandarin for future China collaboration

5 Oct 2018 - 11:14pm 5

The new facility will be at the University of Hong Kong Zhejiang Institute of Research and Innovation (HKU-ZIRI) near Hangzhou in Zhejiang province. Photo: Handout

HKU boosts space research with HK$10 million for Hangzhou lab

5 Oct 2018 - 11:38pm

The potential moon would be considerably larger than Earth – about the size of Neptune or Uranus

Have scientists found the first moon outside our solar system?

4 Oct 2018 - 8:32pm

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Trump’s Space Force can’t hurt China like Star Wars hurt the Soviets

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The asteroid explorer Hayabusa2. Photo: AP

Japanese space probe lands second robot explorer on asteroid

3 Oct 2018 - 10:10pm 1

The International Space Station in an undated picture. Photo: NASA via AP

Russia says hole on International Space Station made deliberately

3 Oct 2018 - 12:49am

A cosmologist answers questions about the expansion of the universe

What lies beyond the universe?

2 Oct 2018 - 12:20pm

Scientists are working on a device they hope will be able to reveal the location of a target as far as 500 metres below the ocean surface

Will China’s new laser satellite become the ‘Death Star’ for submarines?

1 Oct 2018 - 10:42pm 109

The unmanned Hayabusa2 spacecraft took more than two years to reach the vicinity of the asteroid

Japan’s robotic rovers transmit first photos of Ryugu asteroid

29 Sep 2018 - 4:56am

The scientist worked on developing rocket propellers that could be used for Chinese spacecraft. Photo: Xinhua

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28 Sep 2018 - 10:47pm 29

The launch was delayed for about two weeks because of bad weather and a mechanical problem. Photo: Kyodo

Japanese supply ship heads to space station after delays

23 Sep 2018 - 3:34pm

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

Japanese space robots have landed on asteroid in world first

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

Meet the Japanese billionaire booked for the moon on SpaceX rocket

20 Sep 2018 - 10:41am

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

To infinity and beyond: why space may be luxury travel’s next stop

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

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