European Mars rover named after DNA discoverer Rosalind Franklin
13 February 2019
The European Space Agency is sending a rover to look for signs of life on Mars, and it has been named after one of the discoverers of DNA
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First moon plants sprout in China's Chang'e 4 biosphere experiment
15 January 2019
China's space agency has released images of cotton plants sprouting inside the Chang'e 4 moon lander's mini biosphere, the first plant to germinate on another world
NASA has chosen the landing site for its life-hunting 2020 Mars rover
20 November 2018
Jezero crater on Mars is thought to have once had a river flowing along its rim and could hold signs of ancient life
The first detailed look at how Elon Musk's space internet could work
7 November 2018
Elon Musk has revealed little about his plans to provide internet from space, but a new simulation shows how it could work and who will be able to afford it
The BepiColombo spacecraft is on its way to Mercury
24 October 2018
The BepiColombo spacecraft has begun its 7-year journey to Mercury, where it will orbit and investigate the many mysteries of Mercury
Japan’s Hayabusa 2 spacecraft has arrived at asteroid Ryugu
27 June 2018
A Japanese spacecraft has arrived at the tiny asteroid Ryugu, where it will drop off landers and explosively take samples of dust to analyse back on Earth
Start-up aims to catapult stuff to space without using rockets
28 February 2018
A company called SpinLaunch says it wants to use a centrifuge to slingshot cargo into space, avoiding the need for heavy, pricey rocket fuel
SpaceX set to launch massive Falcon Heavy rocket for first time
7 February 2018
The rocket is one of the most powerful ever built and will launch SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s personal Tesla Roadster into an orbit around the sun
Two satellites scrambling into orbit after launch went wrong
31 January 2018
The two satellites are moving themselves into orbit after the rocket carrying them lost contact with Earth, causing it to offload them in the wrong place
Safety panel puts brakes on SpaceX’s plan to put humans in space
17 January 2018
An independent safety panel has recommended that SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket should not carry crew until the conditions that led to a 2016 explosion are fully understood
