Japanese firm declares lunar mission a failure after crash landing
The failed mission comes two years after the Japanese start-up’s first moonshot ended in a crash landing.
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Video shows the return of China’s Shenzhou-19 spacecraft, landing in the country’s north.
Landing on the steppes of Kazakhstan coincides with US astronaut Donald Pettit’s 70th birthday.
Near a planet far, far away astronomers have found traces of chemicals that on Earth are only produced by living beings.
As the planet burns and women struggle to survive, a billionaire’s fiancee claims inspiration from the edge of space.
A space tourism rocket carried an all-female crew of six to the edge of space and back.
![A Blue Origin space tourism rocket carried an all-female crew of six to the edge of space and back in a flight that lasted just over ten minutes. [Screenshot via Blue Origin]](/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/blue_origin_new_shepard_rocket_female_crew_space-1744641187.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
The spacecraft with two Russian and one American astronaut took off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX dominates the news these days, but a host of oddballs involved in space exploration came before him.
NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore have returned to Earth aboard a SpaceX Dragon capsule.
Nine months in space can permanently alter the body, leaving astronauts with possible long-term health effects.
Stranded astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore are on their way back to Earth nine months later than planned.
