To expand our knowledge of black holes, a network of AMT telescopes are being set up around the world, including one in Africa.
Just when you thought that the vastness of space couldn’t get more awe-inspiring, astronomers found more worlds on the edges of the solar system.
For the first time in four years, NASA has opened up applications for new astronauts. The lucky few will get to go to the moon or possibly even Mars.
So you think you’re a pro just because you’ve cracked rank 8 000 on ‘Grand Theft Auto’? Well, this guy figured out how to steal Elon Musk’s space car.
Over the years scientists have tried to solve the problem of interstellar communication in some incredibly weird and wonderful ways.
The space plane is part of a classified mission to conduct in-orbit experiments, with some speculating that involves spying or testing space weapons.
Jeff Bezos has revealed his Blue Moon lunar lander, his plans for space travel, and the team he plans on using to do it.
Some remnants of Halley’s Comet come into view once a year, causing a spectacular meteor shower.
A former NASA scientist reckons they discovered life on Mars quite some time ago, but his findings were dismissed.
The winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics “painted a picture of a universe far stranger and more wonderful than we ever could have imagined”.
Elon Musk wants to establish a colony on Mars, and with Starship, he’s closer than you might think.
The hypersonic ‘Space Plane’ could fly you between Britain and Australia in just four hours, and change air travel as we know it.
NASA is currently investigating what could be considered the first crime perpetrated in space, and it raises a few interesting legal conundrums.
SpaceX is inviting companies to hitch their satellites to their Falcon 9 rocket. For a sizeable fee, of course.
Curator Jon Feinstein put together a collection of images capturing deep space fantasies and imaginaries.
Someone missed one crucial detail about Apollo 11’s re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere, and it could have proven fatal.
The Crew Dragon exploded shortly after returning from the ISS, and engineers now think they know why.
The International Space Station is proof that we can all get along if we put our minds to it. It also beams some great footage back down to us.
Neil Armstrong’s kids speak about their late father almost 50 years after the Apollo 11 lunar landing.
Later tonight (US time), SpaceX’s famous Falcon Heavy Rocket will take to the skies. Onboard will be three new technologies that could redefine space travel.
The latest incredible image from NASA is an X-ray image of the entire sky taken by the Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer.
Using just gravity, black holes can rip entire planets apart, but how powerful they are depends on how much mass they contain.
Meet the three finalists in NASA’s competition to design a structure that could house humans on Mars.
People have spent so much time figuring out how to get into space that we neglected to make a plan for once we were up there.
The C-Space Project Mars simulation base in the Gobi Desert lets you experience what life will be like on Mars.
Spending 340 days aboard the International Space Station between 2015 and 2016 caused physical changes in astronaut Scott Kelly’s body.
First, we got scientific proof that black holes exist, now there’s photographic proof to back it up.
Let’s take a look into the story behind the “90-minute interstellar mixtape”, sent into space in the 70s, as a kind of mixtape for extraterrestrials.
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured an incredible image of two galaxies colliding, the ISS is streaming live, and some genius ‘sonified’ space.
Last month SpaceX launched the first private lunar lander, which was funded in part by a South African born billionaire called Morris Kahn.