Europe regains independent access to space with esa’s new ariane 6 rocket

Between their rivalries and collaborations, how have the world’s top national space agencies contributed to our knowledge of the cosmos?

Bayeux, France Tapestry turmoil: French art experts have ...

On 21 August, in the dead of night, a mysterious spacecraft launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The craft in question was the eerily named X-37B – an experimental and highly secretiv

Meet the astronaut breaking new frontiers in space.

A giant parachute built for Europe’s beleaguered ExoMars ...

This October marks 50 years since a heavily shielded spacecraft, the Soviet Union’s Venera 9, parachuted into the atmosphere of Venus. Then, having landed, it did something extraordinary: it beamed ba