Space and cosmos

Pakistani astronaut to join China’s next space-station mission

The Shou - Wang Tian Gong Beijing Space Exploration Center in Beijing. China has invested heavily in its space programme in recent years.

NASA’s 22-year-old Swift satellite telescope falls from orbit in fiery finale

Since its launch in 2004, Swift had studied hundreds of supernova explosions, star-shredding black holes, stellar X-ray flares, asteroids and comets, contributing to some 7,000 published scientific papers.

NASA’s Swift satellite telescope heads for fiery re-entry 22 years after launch

In July, NASA and Arizona-based startup Katalyst launched a specially built rescue vehicle called Link on a mission to rendezvous with the Swift satellite.

Crew from NASA’s simulated Mars mission emerges after 378 days in isolation

The crew members were (from left) mission commander Ross Elder, science officer Matthew Montgomery, medical officer Ellen Ellis and flight engineer James Spicer.

While You Were Sleeping: 5 stories you might have missed, Oct 21, 2026

Ukrainian servicemen in the Dnipropetrovsk region of Ukraine.

Russian satellite dangerously nears European spacecraft supporting Ukraine’s military

Space experts say close approaches by a satellite can be used to inspect, monitor or interfere with other satellites.

Japan probe on its way to Mars moon in historic mission

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency hopes the mission will reveal how Mars and its two moons formed, a key piece of knowledge in working out how the solar system was born.

Japan to launch historic round-trip mission to Mars moon

A Propulsion Module (left) and Exploration and Return Modules, making up the Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) spacecraft, at the Tanegashima Space Center in Minamitane, Kagoshima prefecture, on Aug 13.

Astronaut Pikachu logs 67 days and 1,040 orbits aboard ISS – now catch him on Earth

The plush space traveller was at the orbiting laboratory from April 11 to June 17 with crew members from the European Space Agency.

‘No divisions, no borders’, French astronaut says of seeing Earth from space

French astronaut Sophie Adenot is the first French female astronaut to venture outside the space station for a spacewalk.

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