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Two days remain until the planned liftoff of a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft on the company’s Falcon 9 rocket—the first launch of a commercially built and operated American spacecraft and space system designed for humans. Liftoff is targeted for 2:49 a.m. EST on Saturday, March 2, from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Demo-1 mission to the International Space Station serves as an end-to-end test of the system’s capabilities.

SpaceX plans to send 3 tourists to the space station next year

5 March 2020

SpaceX is partnering with a US start-up called Axiom Space to launch three space tourists on a 10-day trip to the International Space Station
First private space rescue mission sees two satellites latch together

First private space rescue mission sees two satellites latch together

27 February 2020

A private satellite that is low on fuel could survive five more years because another satellite has come to its rescue – a technique that could be used by future service spacecraft
Cerberus Fossae

Five things we have learned about Mars from NASA's InSight mission

24 February 2020

NASA’s InSight lander has been on the surface of Mars for over a year now – here are five of its strangest and most fascinating discoveries from the Red Planet
Woman opening curtains

Smart windows can let visible light through while blocking out heat

27 April 2020

A 3D printed grate can be used to make a smart window that blocks heat from sunlight out in the summer while letting it through in the winter, conserving energy
Biggest ever map of the universe reveals 11 billion years of history

Biggest ever map of the universe reveals 11 billion years of history

27 July 2020

A huge survey of the universe has been able to peer back into the deep past, revealing 80 per cent of the universe’s 14-billion-year history
Watch a beam of light bounce off mirrors in ultra-slow motion

Watch a beam of light bounce off mirrors in ultra-slow motion

27 July 2020

For the first time, researchers have taken a video of a pulse of laser light as it moves in three dimensions, using a camera with a shutter speed of a trillionth of a second. It could potentially be used to see around corners
Venus

Venus may have an underground magma ocean spanning the whole planet

2 April 2020

When Earth and Venus formed, they both had global magma oceans deep underground. Earth’s has turned solid by now, but Venus’s may still remain hidden
Hayabusa-2 asteroid Ryugu

Bombing asteroid Ryugu reveals it is a spritely 9 million years old

19 March 2020

The Hayabusa-2 spacecraft bombed the asteroid Ryugu in April. Analysing the crater it left behind suggests Ryugu is a relative youngster at 9 million years old
Microsoft says it will cut emissions to be carbon negative by 2030

Microsoft says it will cut emissions to be carbon negative by 2030

16 January 2020

Microsoft says that by 2030 it will remove more carbon from the environment than it emits, and by 2050 it plans to offset all emissions the firm has made since 1975
The Boeing Starliner spacecraft is seen after it landed in White Sands, N.M., . Boeing safely landed its crew capsule in the New Mexico desert Sunday after an aborted flight to the International Space Station that threatened to set back the company's effort to launch astronauts for NASA next year Boeing-Crew Capsule, White Sands, USA - 22 Dec 2019

Boeing's Starliner hiccup could delay US plans for crewed spaceflight

27 December 2019

A problem with Boeing's Starliner spacecraft prevented it from visiting the ISS on its first flight to space