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After nine months in space, NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore have returned to Earth. Their mission, originally set for just eight days, turned into an epic journey filled with challenges. Discover their incredible story of resilience and dedication to space exploration.
After nine months, a pair of US astronauts are finally home.
Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams flew to the orbital lab in June last year, on what was supposed to be a days-long roundtrip to test out Boeing's Starliner on its first crewed flight.
Katy Perry and Gayle King are set to embark on a groundbreaking all-female space mission, joining an elite crew on a Blue Origin rocket.
History was made on Sunday as Elon Musk’s SpaceX was able to “catch” the booster of its Starship rocket after a test flight.
The Europa Clipper mission will allow the US space agency to uncover new details about the moon, which scientists believe could hold an ocean of liquid water beneath its icy surface.
During its last flight in June, SpaceX achieved its first successful splashdown with Starship, a prototype spaceship that Musk hopes will one day carry humans to Mars.
Flawed Boeing mission to return to Earth with rival SpaceX, but it will be a long haul for the seasoned space travellers.
The University of the Western Cape recently participated in an international mission to study Pluto.
Technical glitches with the spacecraft have left two NASA astronauts, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, in limbo onboard the International Space Station (ISS).
Next month, SA non-profit organisation Future African Space Explorer’s STEM Academy is set to celebrate graduates completing their Pathways to Space programme. The programme is aimed at increasing space education and awareness on the continent.
The South African National Space Agency (Sansa) Space Weather Centre issued several G4 warnings and, for the first time since 2003, one G5 warning was issued.
On April 8, a total solar eclipse dazzled millions of people in North America along a path crossing from Mexico into the United States and then Canada
With the total solar eclipse on Monday (April 8) comes several myths and superstitions, including sleep disorders, nightmares, bad dreams, accidents and that pregnant women should not handle sharp objects as the baby could be born with a cleft palate
With the international space race back on in hopes of expanding man’s footprint on other planets, Japan’s Tokyo-based Space One's 18-metre Kairos rocket blew up seconds after it launched
A commercial space craft will hopefully touchdown near the lunar south pole by Thursday evening, as the Texas company seeks to expand the United States footprint on the moon.
The technology-savvy country of Japan has suffered more delays to its space exploration program, after the postponement of its next-generation rocket this week due to bad weather.
Japan has become the fifth country to put a spacecraft on the lunar surface, but the “Moon Sniper” is not generating solar power, the country's space agency JAXA says.
A historic private mission to land on the Moon faced near-certain failure Monday after the spacecraft suffered a critical loss of fuel, dealing a major blow to America's hopes of placing its first robot on the lunar surface in five decades.
The first US lunar lander launched in more than five decades has experienced an anomaly preventing it from pointing its solar panels towards the Sun, the company that built the robot said Monday.
The first American spacecraft to attempt to land on the moon in more than half a century successfully launched early on Monday, with private industry leading the charge.
Nasa has been studying the effects of microgravity on plants in space by using an Advanced Plant Habitat in hopes of feeding future astronauts.
No humans, but 33 science and research payloads will be on board, the company added, referring to cargo that will support experiments in space.
From gene-editing therapy to nuclear fusion ignition, scientists have made a number of important breakthroughs in 2023, each advancing research in their respective fields.
This biodiversity research project, known as BioSCape, was launched in October by NASA and the National Research Foundation (NRF) in collaboration with the University of Cape Town.