Space

US space agency announces contracts awarded to four companies to collect soil from the moon for $1 to $15,000.

Tracking organisation records 90 reports of the fireball seen across states including Michigan, New York and Virginia.

If the Chang’e-5 mission is successful, China will become third country after US and Russia to...

‘Game-changer’ telescope takes panoramic images of deep space at record speed and opens the way to...

Beijing pours billions of dollars into its space programme with hopes of having a crewed space station by 2022.

Beijing is pouring billions into its military-run space programme, with hopes of having a crewed space station by 2022.

SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule, dubbed Resilience by its crew of three Americans and one Japanese astronaut, docks at ISS.

Rocket launches overlooking the Atlantic Ocean are becoming increasingly common, sometimes with more than one in a week.

NASA calls flight its first ‘operational’ mission for a rocket and crew-vehicle system that was 10 years in the making.

NASA will launch four astronauts aboard a SpaceX Dragon capsule this weekend, opening a new era in human spaceflight.

Unambiguous detection of water on the moon could help facilitate eventual crewed missions to Mars.

Images beamed back to ground control revealed it caught more material than scientists anticipated.

NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy and Russia’s Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner touch down safely on Kazakhstan steppe.

Scientists want at least 60 grams of Bennu’s carbon-rich material – thought to contain the building blocks of life.