The world's largest planetary defense drill is underway as scientists prepare for 3I/ATLAs to make its closest pass by Earth ...

The phenomenon, known as luminous fast blue optical transients or LFBOTs, comes in the form of short, bright flashes of light ...

Hundreds of miles above the Earth, a new space race is unfolding. It began on 23 May 2019, when Elon Musk's Starlink launched ...

Last month, a tiny piece of debris travelling at high speed cracked the window of the Shenzhou-20 spacecraft's return capsule ...

Musk's companies SpaceX and Starlink have revolutionised the space sector. Sky News analysis shows that unauthorised use of ...

Three Chinese astronauts were left without a ride home after a return space ship was damaged with a cracked window.

The news comes as the biggest space industry event ever held in the country, Space-Comm Expo Scotland, gets underway.

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The trick to any space launch is getting the spacecraft off the ground in the first place. It takes a lot of energy to fight back against the Earth's gravitational pull. But once you've started - ...