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Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield give a thumbs up after the Russian Soyuz space capsule landed some 150 km southeast of the town of Zhezkazgan in central Kazakhsta. Photograph: Reuters
Chris Hadfield’s use of social media made space seem less alien

I feel bereft. My one small comfort is knowing I am not alone. There are 940,118 people on Twitter feeling the same this week. And another 333,(...)

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield gives a thumbs-up after a successful parachute landing in Kazakhstan. Photograph: Nasa handout/Reuters
Hadfield and crew land safely in Kazakhstan after space mission
  • World
  • May 14, 2013, 07:00

The first Canadian astronaut to command the International Space Station landed safely in Kazakhstan with two crewmates today, wrapping up a five-mo(...)

Two Nasa astronautshave successfully repaired an ammonia leak in the cooler system of the International Space Station. Photograph: Nasa
Spacewalking astronauts repair space station leak
  • World
  • May 12, 2013, 12:35

A pair of spacewalking astronauts wrapped up a hastily planned repair job yesterday to replace a suspect coolant pump needed to keep the Intern(...)

Two astronauts will make a spacewalk to try to fix an ammonia leak in the International Space Station’s power system. Photograph: Nasa handout
Astronaut spacewalk planned to fix Space Station leak
  • US
  • May 11, 2013, 12:55

Two astronauts will make a hastily-planned spacewalk to try to fix an ammonia leak in the International Space Station’s power system. Off(...)

Elon Musk: The man making the future happen

For a man who has just been introduced as a modern Isambard Kingdom Brunel or Henry Ford, the 41-year-old Elon Musk looks nervous and hesitant (...)

Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong on the lunar surface on July 20th, 1969... or not, according to the conspiracy theorists. Photograph: AP/Nasa/Buzz Aldrin
Conspiracy theorists’ weak logic alive and well on Earth

You could view the recent survey by Public Policy Polling, a respected US organisation, as one of those proverbial glasses that is either half-(...)

Artist’s concept showing Nasa’s twin Voyager spacecraft exploring a turbulent region of space known as the heliosheath, the outer shell of the bubble of charged particles around the sun. Photograph: Nasa
Voyager 1 has left the solar system, scientists claim in new paper

There is no dispute that the little spacecraft Voyager 1 has boldly gone w(...)

This artist's concept shows Nasa's Voyager 1 spacecraft exploring a new region in the solar system called the ‘magnetic highway’. After 33, NASA's twin Voyager spacecraft are still going strong and sending home information. Voyager 1, launched in 1977 to explore the outer planets, has passed into a new region on its way out of th esolar system, scientists said .
Space probe becomes first man-made object to leave solar system
  • World
  • March 21, 2013, 14:32

A space probe launched 35 years ago has become the first man-made object to leave the solar system, scientists said today. Voyager 1 is (...)

Nasa drilling shows Mars once had all the ingredients needed ‘for life’

DICK AHLSTROM Science Editor Dust drilled from a Martian rock confirms that conditions on the Red Planet once included all the ingredient(...)

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