Space Mission

Crew of first all-private flight returns to Earth after weeks aboard ISS

The landing marked the official end of the first fully-private mission to the orbiting outpost and a turning point in NASA's goal to commercialise the region of space called low Earth orbit.

NASA's Webb telescope successfully deploys tennis-court-sized sunshield

The sunshield will be permanently positioned between NASA's Webb telescope and the Sun, Earth and Moon, ensuring the observatory is kept in the shade as it completes its mission.

China awaits probe's return to Earth with Moon rocks

Chinese mission that landed on Moon has transferred rocks to an orbiter which is due to land in northern grasslands in Inner Mongolia region in mid-December.

Rosetta spacecraft completes historic 12-year-long odyssey

After travelling 6 billion kilometres across space over 12 years, Rosetta ends historic mission by crash-landing into the comet it orbited for two years.

NASA launches probe to search for origins of life

In a first of its kind space mission, a probe will take seven years to travel to an asteroid, collect samples and come back to earth in order to help scientists understand the mysteries of life.