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Technical hitch delays first rocket launch at Russian cosmodrome

Russia’s space agency has been left red faced, after a last-minute technical hitch forced it to delay the inaugural launch of a Soyuz rocket from its

USA

SpaceX rocket has successful landing in Atlantic Ocean

A rocket has made history after its reusable booster landed on a platform in the Atlantic Ocean. The success could see a new era of reusable rockets

Kazakhstan

Progress 63 supply ship heads for International Space Station

A spaceship has been launched from Kazakhstan on a resupply mission to the International Space Station. The Progress 63 craft is carrying food, fuel

World News

Cygnus spacecraft reaches ISS

The Cygnus capsule, developed by Orbital ATK, is delivering 8,000 pounds of groceries and gear.

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Russia

ExoMars mission leaves Earth's orbit heading for Mars

After a successful launch, the joint European-Russian mission to sniff out signs of life on Mars has left Earth’s orbit and is heading for the Red

USA

Record-breaking astronaut Scott Kelly to retire

Record-holding astronaut Scott Kelly is to retire from NASA on April 1, the agency reports. The American made history after spending almost a year on

World

Methane the key to life for ExoMars 2016 mission

Scientists from the European Space Agency and Russia’s Federal Space Agency face a weekend of intense tinkering ahead of Monday’s ExoMars mission

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Back to gravity

A Soyuz capsule carrying NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko and Sergey Volkov landed in Kazakhstan on Wednesday

Kazakhstan

NASA spaceman Scott Kelly returns to Earth after record breaking ISS stint

NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko have arrived back on Earth after nearly a year aboard the International Space

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How to build a village on the Moon

The head of the European Space Agency says he would like to build a permanent base on the Moon. We meet him to discuss that incredible plan, and head to the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne to mee

Kazakhstan

First part of new space 'data highway' blasts off from Kazakhstan

A new space “data highway” has taken a giant leap forward. The first building block of the European Data Relay Satellite (EDRS), a node, has blasted

USA

Challenger disaster: space crew remembered 30 years on

Hundreds have gathered at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida to remember the victims of the Challenger shuttle disaster, 30 years on. Six

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Scientists predict big things for the tiny CubeSat: 'a satellite in a shoe box'

Tiny satellites the size of a small cube, jam-packed with the most advanced nanotechnologies: is this the future of Space missions? To find out, we

World News

Space X rocket destroyed after successful EU satellite launch

Space X’s reusable Falcon 9 rocket has successfully put a European satellite into orbit, but what launch engineers described as a “hard landing”

USA

SpaceX launches ocean monitoring satellite

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from California on Sunday putting a climate-monitoring satellite into orbit. The Jason-3 will help improve our

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Astronaut Tim Peake becomes the first Briton to walk in space

Major Tim Peake made history on Friday, January 15, becoming the first Briton to walk in space. The 43-year-old ventured out of the International

United Kingdom

Briton Tim Peake's historic ISS spacewalk is cut short

Tim Peake has become the first astronaut representing Britain to walk in space. But the ex-army major’s trip outside the International Space Station

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Happy New Year from space

Astronauts from the International Space Station, Americans Scott Kelly and Tim Kopra and Briton Tim Peake have wished a Happy New Year to everybody

USA

SpaceX jubilant at success of re-usable rocket

A rocket took off from Cape Canaveral in Florida on Monday and landed again ten minutes later – the first time such a feat has been achieved. The

Russia

Cargo vehicle launches on a Soyuz rocket to the ISS

An unpiloted version of the Russian Soyuz spacecraft known as the ISS Progress 62 cargo resupply vehicle blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in