They were custom made for each astronaut and sewn by expert seamstresses who learned to stitch multiple layers of synthetic ...

Singapore is known globally as an international centre for finance and hub for global transport, but is arguably less well ...

Future space settlers will have to learn to inhabit their own inner world long before reaching an alien one, a form of mental self-sufficiency that could become just as valuable as performing flawless ...

Almost anyone who has looked into the night sky has wondered if we could ever travel to the stars. Today, for the first time in history, we might be only decades away from sending a spacecraft to a ...

The Romanian government, through the National Agency for Scientific Research, has began its sponsorship of NERVA, a Romanian orbital nanosatellite launcher. The launcher is currently in development by ...

A cloth and some glue might not seem a high-tech way in which to fix a hole in a spacecraft orbiting above Earth, but that is how astronauts filled the breach on a Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft docked to the ...

"For my entire life I have always gone against the grain, that is why some people told me from time to time that I have crazy ideas. The very first time I was labelled crazy was in 1988, when I was a ...

At the 13th European Space Conference held this week both in Brussels and with an on-line presence, the Portuguese Space Agency has said it is looking at building a spaceport on the Azores islands.

Thales Alenia Space, the joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), has signed a contract with prime contractor Ball Aerospace to supply communications equipment for NASA’s NEO Surveyor ...

Japan successfully tested a rocket engine that was propelled by shock waves produced by burning a mixture of methane and oxygen gases, the country’s space agency said Tuesday. Known officially as a ...

The BoldlyGo Institute has announced that it is living up to its name by boldly going on a hunt for habitable Earth-size planets in the Alpha Centauri system using a state-of the-art space telescope; ...

Very soon, if all goes according to plan and the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket it is hitching a ride with blasts off successfully, then an Israeli company will be the first private non-profit organisation to ...