Thursday 5 August, 2021
The company is facing increasing pressure to improve working conditions.
Professor Tim Jackson says he’s not a technophobe, but that maybe humanity should pay more attention to the planet right now than heading into space.
Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson made the voyage on 11 July, narrowly beating Bezos.
The three-man crew arrived at China’s Tianhe space station last week.
Astronomers have predicted the transformation of a star into a white dwarf will send its planets bouncing off each other’s gravity.
The Tianzhou-2 spacecraft reached the Tianhe station eight hours after blasting off from Hainan.
The shuttle, with two pilots on board, took off and landed today.
A rover will join an American craft which arrived at the red planet in February.
The Dragon capsule parachuted into the Gulf of Mexico, ending the second astronaut flight for Elon Musk’s company.
A Nasa astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts landed in the steppes of Kazakhstan.
The trio launched successfully from Russia’s leased Baikonur base in Kazakhstan.
Two previous test flights had crash-landed in fireballs.
Mission Control said it would need to work on “kindergarten skills” after some painted lines were slightly off.
The panorama is composed of 142 individual images stitched together on Earth, NASA said.
The agency also released new images the rover took on the Martian surface.
We’re starting another rotation around the sun. Here’s what to watch out for in the skies.
Scientists hope the precious samples could help shed light on the origin of life and the formation of the universe.
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Chang’e 5 will return to earth with 2kg of moon rocks – it is expected to touch down in Mongolia later this month.
It is one step on a programme to send a manned mission to the satellite.
The four astronauts aboard the Dragon capsule will remain at the ISS for six months.
The flight to the space station – 27.5 hours door to door – should be entirely automated.
Only Japan has previously collected asteroid samples.
Scientists made a new discovery in the clouds of Venus recently…
The gas has been detected in the atmosphere of Venus, suggesting the planet could host unknown photochemical or geochemical processes.
There will be 20 times more shooting stars than a normal night on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The rocket took off in California despite a 4.2 magnitude earthquake.
US Space Command said it has evidence that Moscow carried out the test on 15 July.
The Chinese mission is named Tianwen-1.
Earth and Mars are unusually close at the moment, a mere hop of 55 million kilometres.
A new batch of 58 Starlink internet satellites and three Earth-observation satellites were launched.
The launch will be attempted again on Saturday.
If all goes as planned, the mission will see SpaceX become the first private company to send astronauts into space.
The two-day demo was originally due to last for over a week.
It will initially have about 200 people and a first-year budget of $40 million.
It’s a huge moment for US spaceflight which is now dependant on private companies.
The black hole is twice as big as scientists believed possible.
The space station is currently home to three Americans, two Russians and one Italian.
The brightest of the fireballs was at about 6.54 pm last night.
