Space technologies are critical to the UK’s economic future in finance, navigation, defence and secure communications. As competition in space intensifies, the UK is investing in innovation to ...

NASA photographer Josh Valcarcel captured Zena Cardman in a pose evocative of one of the first female astronaut's portraits.

To the anguish of the space industry, the UK is the only country to have successfully developed, and then abandoned, a satellite launch capability. That was over 50 years ago. But with the ...

Borealis is a software system that collates and processes data to strengthen the UK military’s ability to monitor what’s going on in space. The government’s investment, announced on March 7 ...

The space telescope's image of a odd-looking spiral galaxy is, in reality, two distant galaxies overlapping each other. An elliptical galaxy and a spiral galaxy appear as one celestial body as a ...

These included the UK Space Agency, Airbus, Eutelsat OneWeb, Satellite Applications Catapult, STFC RAL Space, Surrey Satellite Technology Limited, Surrey Space Centre, and the 5G Innovation Centre.

Two huge new vacuum testing chambers, nearing completion in Oxfordshire, represent a major leap forward for the UK space industry, experts claim. Scheduled for completion in May, the chambers will use ...

Why it's so special: Something strange happened late at night on January 13, 2025. Sometime between about 9:00 p.m. and 1:00 a.m. EST (depending on where you were in North America), the full "Wolf ...

The trio are returning to Earth after logging 220 days in space as members of Expeditions 71 and 72 aboard the International Space Station.

Space missions are all about precision and planning… or at least, they’re supposed to be. But even in the vast, high-tech world of outer space, things don’t always go as planned. Over the ...

From the vantage point of the photo, you are looking up and into High Bay 2 of the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Floridia. Once the most voluminous building in ...