Prepare to jump to light speed: Inside the mission to go interstellar
10 April 2019
Proxima Centauri is 4 light years away. Ambitious space mission Breakthrough Starshot is developing a way to push spacecraft there at a fifth of the speed of light
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Found 7 results for asteroid
Ultima Thule is a snowman-shaped rock covered in weird ice
2 January 2019
The New Horizons spacecraft just flew past a distant rock called MU69 or Ultima Thule that looks like a snowman - and it may have exotic ices on its surface
First close-up look shows asteroid Bennu is a holey watery world
10 December 2018
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission arrived at Bennu on 3 December, and its first results show that the asteroid is chock-full of water and covered in huge boulders
NASA spacecraft OSIRIS-REx set to start mission at asteroid Bennu
1 December 2018
The OSIRIS-REx mission is set to arrive at its destination, the asteroid Bennu, which gets dangerously close to Earth and may tell us about the early solar system
SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket test is the start of a race to Mars
4 January 2018
The imminent first flight of Elon Musk's giant new rocket could mark a spectacular start to a new era in space flight, says Paul Marks
OSIRIS-REx spacecraft zooms by Earth on its way to an asteroid
22 September 2017
On its way to collect dust samples from the asteroid Bennu, NASA’S OSIRIS-REx spaceship will slingshot around Earth, passing 17,000 kilometres above Antarctica
Cassini's legacy: Where next in the search for alien life
11 September 2017
Without Cassini and its forebears we would never have guessed life may lurk in the cold outer reaches of the solar system – now we know just where to look
