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China unveils its plans for new space station
Nov 7, 2018The new orbital platform will be China's first permanently manned space station when it launches in 2022.
Strange 1,500km-long cloud spotted on Mars
Nov 1, 2018ESA's Mars Express orbiter has photographed a long white cloud lingering eerily over the planet's surface.
BepiColombo probe is on its way to Mercury
VIDEO Oct 20, 2018The ambitious new mission will see two satellites placed in to orbit around the closest planet to the Sun.
Bizarre solar system is baffling astronomers
Oct 16, 2018Four gargantuan planets have been observed orbiting a relatively young star approximately 500 light years away.
Are there moonmoons orbiting other moons ?
Oct 14, 2018A new study has looked in to the possibility that some large moons may actually have their own 'submoons'.
Neptune-sized extrasolar moon discovered
Oct 4, 2018Astronomers have found what is thought to be the first confirmed moon in orbit around an extrasolar world.
Japan set to test miniature space elevator
Sep 6, 2018Scientists in Japan are aiming to one day build an elevator that can carry people and cargo in to orbit.
NASA discovers leak aboard the space station
Aug 30, 2018Astronauts have been working to locate and seal a small leak that has opened up aboard the orbiting outpost.
Mystery space plane nears one year in orbit
Aug 19, 2018The US military's mysterious X-37B has spent almost a year in space on its latest secretive mission.
Earth may have several orbiting 'mini-moons'
Aug 18, 2018Scientists have discovered that the Moon may not be the only natural satellite in orbit around our planet.
Lake of liquid water discovered on Mars
VIDEO Jul 25, 2018Scientists believe that they have identified a body of water situated beneath the planet's south polar ice cap.
NASA captures image of 'spiders' on Mars
Jul 14, 2018Peculiar surface features that resemble large spiders can be seen in the latest image from NASA's Mars orbiter.
A space war could make space inaccessible
VIDEO Jul 1, 2018As if space junk wasn't already enough of a problem, a war in space could litter the planet's orbit with tons of debris.
Second Chinese space station acting strangely
Jun 26, 2018China's Tiangong-2 space station recently spent ten days 95km closer to the Earth than its usual orbit.
New theory casts doubt on Planet Nine
Jun 5, 2018Scientists have come up with an alternative explanation for the peculiar orbits of some distant objects.
Probe to study solar system's protective bubble
Jun 4, 2018NASA is launching a spacecraft to study the heliosphere - a bubble which extends far beyond the orbit of Pluto.
New Grace mission will weigh Earth's water
May 23, 2018The launch of two new satellites in to orbit will enable scientists to study the evolution of our planet's climate.
Interstellar interloper found near Jupiter
May 21, 2018An asteroid believed to be from another solar system has been found orbiting the Sun in the wrong direction.
Further evidence of Planet Nine discovered
May 18, 2018A small solar system object with a strange orbit has hinted at the presence of a large, unknown world.
SpaceX debuts new model of its Falcon 9 rocket
VIDEO May 12, 2018The new 'Block 5' Falcon 9 was used to successfully place a Bangladeshi satellite in to orbit yesterday.
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