Space

Houston, we have a problem… The moment one of Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin rockets exploded into a truly terrifying fireball during a test has been going viral online and in the news. At around 21:00 local time last night (02:00 BST), a rocket made by Blue Origin was conducting a test on its launch pad […]

5 days ago

It comes after 10 days of space travel After 10 days of cruising through space, the crew of Artemis II are finally set to return home today – here’s what time and how you can watch the big moment live. The record-breaking space mission saw the crew travel the farthest any human has ever gone […]

1 month ago

People all have the same question… NASA has launched humankind further than ever before into space with the launch of Artemis II. On Wednesday, 1 April, the mission successfully took off with the crew now bound for the Moon. The 10-day mission will send four astronauts around the Moon in the Orion spacecraft to test life-support systems, […]

2 months ago

‘I saw the paparazzi-like flashes of lightning storms’ An astronaut who spent nearly six months in space has revealed how his perspective on life shifted as he looked back down at planet Earth and realised we were ‘living a lie’. The ‘overview effect’ is a change that occurs when people see the world from above […]

6 months ago

State news gave the update Three astronauts have been left stranded in space after a collision with an “unknown object”, according to breaking reports. The Chinese astronauts, Chen Dong, Chen Zhongrui, and Wang Jie, are currently in space with no return date, having been aboard the Tiangong space station since early 2025. The trio had […]

7 months ago

It’s impacting time for us on Earth Scientists have discovered that the Moon is slowly drifting away from us here on Earth, meaning that days are slowly getting longer. Opposing to long-held assumptions that our only natural satellite remains same distance from Earth, scientists now think the Moon has been slowly moving away from us […]

7 months ago