The new EU space programme has been officially launched. It'll cover the period to 2027 and will see the bloc's 27 member states deepen investments in satellite-navigation, Earth observation, space ...

The RAF has selected a Typhoon pilot to lead its new space programme in collaboration with Virgin Orbit. Flight Lieutenant Mathew Stannard, 30, is being seconded to the programme which will use ...

Republic of India would be prominently remembered as the year it fought its first high-technological precision-strike battle ...

India’s space journey has evolved beyond a string of spectacular missions and is a source of daily inspiration ...

More than 20 national space projects have been announced today by The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) Secretary of State Peter Kyle, on the opening day of the Farnborough ...

The first foreign-born NASA astronaut has revealed how he was rejected for the space programme 11 times. José Hernández, now 61, became the first migrant astronaut on the space program in 2004. Now, ...

Seraphim Space – the London-based, space-focused VC – has announced the nine companies selected for the latest iteration of its accelerator programme, which is aimed at space startups. Those chosen ...

A ROTTING pair of Russian space rockets have been left gathering dust for 30 years inside an eerie abandoned warehouse. The giant £189million shuttles failed to ever make it into orbit leaving the ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Yuri Gagarin took off for his maiden flight 60 years ago on Monday - 12 April, 1961 - in a triumph of Soviet science in its rivalry with the United States. Now Russia’s landmark space programme is ...

China is a relative late-bloomer when it comes to the world of space exploration. But just 15 years after it first sent an astronaut into orbit, China has become the first country to successfully land ...