Building spacecraft is a tough job. They are precision pieces of engineering that have to survive in the airless environment of space, where temperatures can swing from hundreds of degrees Celsius to ...

Polaris Dawn, the private SpaceX mission currently orbiting Earth, has already set several records since its launch on 10 September. Hours after taking off, the mission’s Crew Dragon spacecraft ...

Rémy Ngamije is a multihyphenate: Rwanda-born and Namibia-raised, he went to university in South Africa and is not only a writer of fiction, nonfiction and poetry, but also an educator, editor, ...

The spacecraft experienced several “in-flight anomalies,” forcing NASA to have it return to the Earth without NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, who were left stranded on board the ...

For the first time, ESA has performed a ‘collision avoidance manoeuvre’ to protect one of its spacecraft from colliding with a satellite in a large constellation. On Monday morning, the Agency’s ...

Russia's space program is struggling with sanctions placed on the country as a result of its war with Ukraine, and it could cause long-lasting effects.