Space

NASA astronaut Jonny Kim took this photo on July 23, 2025, as the International Space Station orbited 259 miles above a cloudy Pacific Ocean southwest of Mexico. Visible in the image is the 57.7-foot-long Canadarm2 robotic arm, which extends...

Worldwide fossil fuel emissions are set to rise 1.1 per cent in 2025, reaching another record high as humanity...

Astronauts lose significant amounts of muscle mass during any prolonged stay in space. Despite spending 2-3 hours a day exercising in an attempt to keep the atrophy at bay, many still...

Meet John McFall – Paralympian, medical doctor and member of ESA’s Astronaut Reserve. As part of ESA’s groundbreaking FLY initiative, John is helping prove that physical disability is no barrier to space. In this episode, he shares the results...

The romantic comedy "I See You" aims to become the first western film to launch a filmmaker into low-Earth orbit to shoot key scenes."I See You" won't be entirely shot in orbit, but will mix in-space footage with recorded...

Dark Matter is one of the tenacious mysteries facing astronomers and cosmologists today. This theoretical mass was proposed in the 1960s as a way to explain the rotational curves of galaxies,...

James Watson, one of the discoverers of the structure of DNA, has died in a New York hospice facility...

The Copernicus Sentinel-1D satellite has joined the Sentinel-1 mission in orbit. Launch took place on 4 November 2025 at 22:02 CET (18:02 local time) on board an Ariane 6 launcher from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana.The Sentinel-1 mission delivers...

A comprehensive new map of Roman roads has boosted the known size of the empire’s land transport network by...

Astronomy would be a lot easier if there were no clouds of gas and dust in space. There'd be no need for telescopes with the abilty to see through these thick...