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Perseverance rover is on target for Mars landing
Feb 17, 2021NASA's car-sized rover is currently lined up perfectly for its nail-biting and dramatic descent onto Mars tomorrow.
Mars Perseverance and the '7 minutes of terror'
VIDEO Dec 23, 2020NASA has released a new video to highlight the daring descent of the Perseverance rover once it reaches Mars.
NASA outlines goals for crewed Moon mission
Dec 8, 2020In addition to landing humans on the Moon, the Artemis III mission will aim to achieve several scientific goals.
Can we still land humans on the Moon by 2024 ?
Nov 14, 2020A recent analysis has cast doubt on the ambitious timetable currently set out for a manned lunar landing.
NASA's OSIRIS-REx touches down on asteroid
Oct 21, 2020The space probe has successfully pulled off an ambitious landing maneuver on an asteroid 200 million miles away.
Firms compete to build next-gen lunar lander
VIDEO May 2, 2020Blue Origin, SpaceX and Dynetics are each working on their own solutions to landing humans on the Moon.
Boeing Starliner capsule fails to reach ISS
VIDEO Dec 22, 2019Boeing's reusable crew vehicle had aimed to dock with the station this week but things didn't go quite to plan.
World's first genuine 'fly and drive' car unveiled
VIDEO Dec 4, 2019The Pioneer Personal Air Landing Vehicle (or PAL-V) looks like something out of Back to the Future II.
Alien life discovery will be 'slow and uncertain'
Nov 9, 2019Scientists have warned that an 'aliens landing on the White House lawn' type moment is unlikely to occur.
SpaceX Starship update coming later this month
VIDEO Aug 4, 2019Elon Musk's private space firm has been developing a spacecraft capable of landing humans on other worlds.
Original Apollo 11 tapes to fetch $2 million
Jun 29, 2019The only surviving original recordings of the Apollo 11 Moon landing are set to go up for auction next month.
Israel's unmanned probe crashes on the Moon
VIDEO Apr 12, 2019The world's first attempt to land a privately-funded lander on the lunar surface has sadly ended in failure.
World's first private moon mission launches
VIDEO Feb 24, 2019Israel is set to join China, Russia and the US as the fourth nation to achieve a controlled lunar landing.
Hayabusa2 probe touches down on asteroid
Feb 22, 2019The successful landing follows on from the deployment of two small rovers back in September of last year.
NASA is planning to 'go to the Moon to stay'
Feb 9, 2019The space agency is currently seeking partners to develop reusable lunar landing vehicles.
First astronauts blast off after Soyuz failure
Dec 3, 2018The crewed mission is the first since October, when two astronauts were forced to make an emergency landing.
Russia mission will 'verify US Moon landings'
Nov 25, 2018The head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, has jokingly talked about debunking Apollo conspiracy theories.
The best place to look for life on Mars identified
Nov 11, 2018Scientists behind the ExoMars mission have picked out a landing site where they hope to find evidence of alien life.
Soyuz astronauts make emergency landing
Oct 11, 2018Two astronauts narrowly escaped disaster today when their Soyuz rocket developed a problem with its booster.
Japan makes history as rovers land on asteroid
Sep 22, 2018Japan's space agency JAXA has succeeded in landing two tiny hopping robots on the asteroid Ryugu.
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