Space

A Chinese space mission successfully unfurled the communist country’s flag on the moon, the state propaganda outlet Global Times announced Thursday.

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) successfully launched its first mission to Mars on Monday in what is the Arab world’s first-ever space exploration. 

Britain’s defence minister has said that the UK must evolve its defence capabilities to respond to new threats from the skies from hostile actors like Russia and China.

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) identified China and Russia as its chief adversaries in potential outer space warfare on Wednesday, announcing a new Defense Space Strategy aimed at deterring the threats posed by the two countries and maintaining U.S. dominance in space.

Russia’s space agency accused U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday of setting a precedent to take over other planets by signing an executive order outlining United States policy on commercial mining in space.

Daredevil “Mad” Mike Hughes has died in a crash of a homemade steam-powered rocket during an attempt to leave the earth’s atmosphere. Although Hughes has claimed the Earth is flat and that his flight to the edge of space would prove the flat Earth theory, his PR Representative called the theory a “schtick” Hughes used to gain attention.

According to a recent report, a NASA safety panel has revealed that it is investigating a possible “catastrophic” software glitch that occurred during a crucial test flight of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spaceship designed to carry astronauts.

NASA Astronaut Christina Koch has returned to Earth after spending a record 328 days in space, breaking the record for the longest time a woman has spent in space.

President Donald Trump, during his State of the Union speech on Tuesday evening, hailed the United States Space Force — the military’s newest branch, which was created under his command in December.

The Curiosity Rover on Mars is reportedly frozen in place following a systems failure that has rendered the robot unable to determine its position and altitude.

NASA astronaut Christina Koch on Saturday became the latest woman to spend the longest time in space.

SpaceX said a bug in its “on-call paging system” prevented it from better communication and subsequent coordination with the European Space Agency (ESA) to avoid a possible collision between two satellites orbiting Earth, according to a Tuesday-published report at the Verge. The ESA moved its satellite to avoid being hit by the SpaceX “Starlink” satellite.

NASA is investigating what is possibly the first allegation of a criminal act committed in space, according to reports.

After its next planned astronaut moon landing, NASA’s Project Artemis intends to land astronauts on Mars, explained NASA Deputy Administrator James Morhard in a Friday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.

China’s state-run Global Times on Tuesday quoted speculation by a Chinese aerospace expert that Beijing could put a man on the moon by 2035.

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Saturday the French air force will expand to include a space command to improve the country’s defence capabilities.

In Washington, DC, on May 9, Jeff Bezos introduced his vision for humanity’s future trek to space.

Vice President Mike Pence promised at the Satellite 2019 Conference in Washington, D.C., this week that the first woman on the moon will be an American.

The Air Force said on Monday that it has not yet finalized a list of potential bases where Space Command will be located.

Iran launched a satellite into space Tuesday that failed to reach orbit and is preparing to deploy another one in the coming days, state-run media from the Islamic Republic reports.

The United Kingdom will create a GPS-like “sovereign” satellite system to rival the European Union’s Galileo programme, Theresa May revealed Friday evening as she met with world leaders in Buenos Aires at the G20 summit.

Mars got slightly more crowded on Monday. At 2:56 p.m. ET, NASA confirmed that its InSight spacecraft safely touched down on the Martian surface.

Amazon has partnered with satellite company Iridium Communications on a project called CloudConnect to bring Internet connectivity to places in the world which currently lack connections.

The first two astronauts have been selected by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to ready for a mission to the International Space Station, Dubai’s ruler said Monday.

“It is not enough to merely have an American presence in space, we must have American dominance in space,” he said.

Rep. Mike Rogers (R-AL) said Friday in an interview with Sirius XM’s Breitbart News Daily that the United States needed a Space Force to meet the threats posed by China and Russia.

A team of scientists have discovered a 12.5-mile-wide lake beneath the surface of Mars’ southern polar ice cap.

Commercial Spaceflight Federation President Eric Stallmer said that President Donald Trump’s encouragement has been key to the development of new solutions for space exploration.

NASA is reportedly in talks with a number of companies to turn the International Space Station into a commercial space laboratory.

 SpaceX, the aerospace manufacturer founded by billionaire Elon Musk, is reportedly postponing plans to fly space tourists around the moon.