Getty ImagesAn eerie whizzing sound followed by a big boom startled Kenyan villagers relaxing recently one afternoon with family and friends."It sounded like a bomb, I was shocked. I ...

BBCJustice Secretary Shabana Mahmood spoke to the BBC's Nick RobinsonThe justice secretary has said even under the government's plans to open 14,000 more prison places, they could still run ...

BBC/Gerry FletcherArtwork: The half-tonne Skynet-1A satellite was launched in November 1969Someone moved the UK's oldest satellite and there appears to be no record of exactly who, when or why.Launched ...

A communications satellite designed and built by embattled aerospace giant Boeing has broken up in orbit.The satellite's operator, Intelsat, has confirmed the "total loss" of iS-33e, which has affected ...

Day trips to the Moon, living on Mars, space elevators… when it comes to the future of space exploration, some possibilities might be closer than we think!Made by BBC ...

Getty ImagesElon Musk wants his new rocket to revolutionise spaceflight. And that rocket, Starship, is now the largest and most powerful spacecraft ever built.It’s also designed to be fully ...

Getty ImagesWe’re in the midst of a Moon rush. A growing number of countries and companies have the lunar surface in their sights in a race for resources and ...

It sounds too good to be true: a plan to harvest solar energy from space and beam it down to Earth using microwaves.But it's something that could be happening ...

Nasa has selected Elon Musk's SpaceX company to bring down the International Space Station at the end of its life.The California-based company will build a vehicle capable of pushing ...

SSTLArtwork: Tyche will collect images from an altitude of 500kmThe UK military is about to launch its first ever dedicated Earth-imaging satellite.Called Tyche, the washing machine-sized spacecraft will have ...

Persisting solar storms created the ideal conditions for aurora borealis in the northern hemisphere, displaying a spectacle that could be seen from space. The astronaut Matthew Dominick, based in ...

EPAButch Wilmore and Sunita Williams prior to the launch of their mission in JuneWhen two American astronauts blasted off on a test mission to the International Space Station on ...