India's space agency says it lost contact with spacecraft minutes before planned moon landing
The country aimed to be the first to land in the Southern Polar region.
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The country aimed to be the first to land in the Southern Polar region.
The BepiColombo blasted off from French Guiana earlier today.
The European Space Agency says it needs political backing.
Professor Peter Gallagher has been appointed as an adviser to the Director of Science at the European Space Agency.
The earliest a relaunch can be attempted is tomorrow morning.
The key goal is to analyse methane, a gas which is created in large by living microbes.
Back to the drawing board for Elon Musk’s company.
The hope is that a new prototype will be able to explore distant planets with potential habitable oceans.
NASA said it’s aiming to send people to Mars in 2030.
For the first time since 1982, NASA is in the process of testing new space suit prototypes.
Bas Lansdorp denied the project is a sham.
On this day in 1986, the shuttle Challenger exploded just 73 seconds after launch.
Reports say Google are planning a big investment in SpaceX.
They did. And it was for a good reason.
The second man to land on the Moon said those that travel to Mars shouldn’t envisage that they will ever return to Earth.
The giant web company is spending nearly €1 billion on a San Francisco air base.
The MAVEN spacecraft, a scout for human explorers, is approaching the red planet
Space junk from a Russian rocket lit up the Australian sky.
A few weeks into orbit, the LightSail’s wings will expand, making it visible from Earth.
With Mars currently in opposition, and shining with an orange tinge, Conor Farrell explores our fascination with the Red Planet.
The US space agency has cut all contacts with Russia, except for cooperation on board the International Space Station.
If you did, you weren’t alone.
The rover experienced a mechanical control abnormality at the end of last month and has been unable to function since then.
The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one, as the famous song goes*. But how about the other direction?
The rover was only supposed to run for 90 days, but 10 years a 40 Martian kilometers later, it shows no signs of stopping.
Dr Joseph Roche, from Kildare, is one of 1,000 people shortlisted for the Mars One colony mission.
The European Space Agency is preparing to launch three hi-tech satellites this Friday.
The country is aiming to become the only Asian nation to reach the Red Planet.
Two groups of astronomers have used data from ESO telescopes to make the best three-dimensional map yet of the centre of our galaxy. Turns out it’s shaped a bit like a peanut…
The dangerous water leak occurred in the helmet of Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano about an hour into the spacewalk.
Maybe we won’t miss Chris Hadfield that much? These spectacular images were taken by his replacement Fyodor Yurchikhin during his last mission on the ISS.
The planet-hunting telescope is 40 million miles from Earth and searches for Earth-like planets outside our solar system.
The world’s leading physicist says our existence depends on finding a new planet to live on. No pressure, then.
Nasa Curiosity Rover, which is living on the Red Planet, has taken samples of rock for analysis by scientists back home.
It’s good to be curious about a world outside our own, because being inquisitive in the past has gotten us where we are today, writes Conor Farrell.
Curiosity has used its ‘hand lens imager’ to take 55 photos of itself – and stitch them into one single giant image.
These are financially difficult times – but that doesn’t mean we should abandon the big projects that advance human knowledge, writes Aaron McKenna.