Spacecraft

New Horizons currently has a lot of time on its hands as it coasts towards interstellar space. The probe has just passed a new milestone distance, celebrating by taking a snap of its predecessor Voyager 1 – or at least, the patch of sky where it is.

The secrets of the mysterious EmDrive thruster – which stumped both NASA and Chinese research teams by delivering measurable thrust without a propellant – have finally been unlocked. The thrust comes from ... drum roll ... repeated experimental error.

Virgin Galactic has wheeled out the next-generation version of the vehicle designed to carry human tourists into space, showing off a shimmering, mirror-like spaceship named the VSS Imagine that features a modular design.

Using mathematical models, a team of researchers has investigated various configurations of lunar landing spacecraft to determine the best approach for setting down astronauts on the Moon and returning them to an orbiting lunar station.

The United Arab Emirates’ first interplanetary mission has passed a major milestone, successfully placing the Hope spacecraft in orbit around Mars and beaming back its first ever picture of the Red Planet.

NASA’s Juno spacecraft will take a Cassini-like approach to exploring the Jovian system when it begins its latest mission extension in August this year at which point it will make passes of Jupiter’s rings and moons, and explore key surface features.

Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket has successfully completed its 14th flight. On January 14, 2021, at 11:20 am, mission NS-14 lifted off on a suborbital trajectory with an improved crew capsule containing a dummy astronaut named Anakin Skywalker.

Virgin Galactic has hit a small speed bump as it continues testing of its spaceplane at its Spaceport America base in New Mexico, with the latest outing for SpaceShipTwo Unity brought to a premature end due to rocket failure.

Scientists have condensed decades of footage taken of our Sun’s atmosphere into a 47-minute video showcasing solar activity on a grand scale. The video was released to mark the 25th anniversary of the NASA/ESA Solar and Heliospheric observatory.

It has been revealed today that planetary scientist Alan Stern will be among the first humans to be carried into space by Virgin Galactic's spaceplane, where he’ll take a hands-on approach to a pair of high-altitude experiments.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has passed a major milestone, completing its prelaunch environmental testing after being subjected to weeks of acoustic and sine-vibration tests to determine whether it can withstand the rigors of a rocket launch.

Flight controllers and station crew have isolated an air leak to the Russian-built Zvezda Service Module of the ISS, but have yet to pinpoint the breach ahead of the arrival of an uncrewed cargo spacecraft later this week.