Space

Skylon air-spacecraft with SABRE engine. Image courtesy of Reaction Engines.

UK space sector: the sky’s not the limit

60 sec interview: Richard Peckham, Airbus Defence & Space UK

A SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage sucessfully landed at Cape Canaveral. Image courtesy of SpaceX.

SpaceX conducts landmark Falcon 9 landing

The SLS rocket is one of the major projects funded in the new Nasa budget. Image courtesy of Nasa.

Nasa receives large budget boost from Congress

PLATO will help continue ongoing search for worlds potentially similar to our own - image courtesy of Thales Alenia Space.

National Space Policy to turn science fiction in to science fact

Schematic of the Jovian magnetosphere with Jupiter at its centre and its moons orbiting - image courtesy of Wikicommons and Volcanopele

Airbus Defence and Space to build $350m Jupiter spacecraft

Creating innovation around the globe - image courtesy of DFC

Turnbull hopes to usher in the ideas boom with $1.1bn innovation plan

The 'New Shepard' rocket launches from its West Texas launch site as it began its historic test - image courtesy of Blue Origin.

Blue Origin makes historic re-useable rocket landing

The global space technology and exploration market is worth approximately $314bn a year. Image courtesy of DPC.

UK risks missing out on £40bn space industry

The Nasa Asteroid Redirect Robotic Mission (ARRM) intends to collect an asteroid boulder and put it into orbit around the moon - image courtesy of Nasa.

Nasa to collect asteroid boulder and orbit it around the moon

The Chinese space station will be open to international modules in a similar way to the ISS (pictured). Image courtesy of Nasa

China plans 2018 space station launch