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UK’s new £4m space technology centre will test engines to send rockets into orbit

Britain’s forgotten history as a rocket pioneer is to be revived with the construction of a £4 million UK National Space Propulsion Facility. Engines for...

Tim Peake feared being stranded on space station, says Foreign Office minister

British astronaut Tim Peake feared being left stuck in space if the West’s relations with Russia deteriorated, a Foreign Office minister has said. Tobias Ellwood...

Tim Peake is going to spend an extra couple of weeks in space

It is already the trip of a lifetime – and now astronaut Tim Peake has been told he can stay in space for an...

Astronaut Scott Kelly is retiring from Nasa now that he’s completed his year in space

After spending a year orbiting the Earth from a distance of 220 miles, Scott Kelly has decided to retire from Nasa at the end...

Private space company Blue Origin claims rocket landing milestone

A private space company said it has landed a rocket upright and gently enough to be used again, a milestone in commercial aeronautics. The achievement...

Stephen Hawking says there is a way out of a black hole

All is not lost if you fall into a black hole – you could simply pop up in another universe, according to Professor Stephen...

Astronauts on the ISS are getting ready for a window cleaning spacewalk

Helping to clean the windows at work takes on a whole different meaning when your office is the International Space Station. Astronauts Gennady Padalka and...

Presenting Earth’s newly discovered ‘older cousin’ Kepler-452b

Spinning around a sun-like star 1,400 light years away is a planet scientists believe is not too distinct from ours. Its parent star is...

Potentially habitable planet found in Milky Way

An “older cousin” of Earth has been discovered orbiting a distant sun-like star more than 1,000 light years away. The world is 60% larger than...

Soyuz space capsule has landed smoothly on the International Space Station

A Soyuz space capsule carrying a Russian, an American and a Japanese has successfully docked at the International Space Station (ISS). The rocket blasted off...

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