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Enabling & Support 16/10/2025 2301 views 23 likes In briefProgress is being made on the Phoebus project’s carbon fibre hydrogen tanks for a potential future application on Ariane 6 and spin-off industrial applicationsSmaller scale models have proven this world-first technology is...

It all started one summer lunchtime in 1992 on the terrace outside the CERN cafeteria. If you had happened...

SpaceX closed out a dramatic chapter in the development of its super-heavy-lift Starship launch system with a successful flight test that mostly followed the script for the previous flight test. The 11th...

Friday the 13th of April 2029 will be our lucky day.Apophis, a 375-metre-wide asteroid, will safely pass Earth at a distance of less than 32 000 kilometres. For a few hours, Apophis will be closer than satellites in geostationary orbit and visible to the naked eye from Europe and Africa.Space...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. For more than a century, physics has been built on two great theories. Einstein's general relativity explains gravity as...

We are getting closer to understanding when the strong nuclear force loosens its grip on the most basic constituents...

When the Apollo astronauts returned from the Moon, they brought with them samples of lunar soil (regolith) and rock. The analysis of these samples forever changed our perceptions of how the...

Science & Exploration 09/10/2025 871 views 14 likesBy fitting its sunshield and solar panels, engineers have completed the construction of Plato, the European Space Agency’s mission to discover Earth-like exoplanets. Plato is on track for the final key tests to...

Blue Origin's second New Glenn rocket just made a big move.Jeff Bezos' company rolled a New Glenn first stage out to the launch pad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Wednesday (Oct. 8) to help prep...

The following is an extract from our Lost in Space-Time newsletter. Each month, we hand over the keyboard to...