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    • Monday, 13 November, 2023
      Artificial intelligence
      AI robot uses meteorite from Mars to help make oxygen from water

      Chinese experiment raises hopes for viability of mission to red planet and planetary colonisation

      Evidence of water on the red planet
    • Tuesday, 7 November, 2023
      Space industry
      France, Germany and Italy boost funding for Ariane 6 rocket programme

      Deal to build capacity for independent launches comes as ESA releases first images of galaxies from Euclid telescope

      Test model of ESA’s new heavy-lift Ariane 6 rocket on its launch pad at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana
    • Thursday, 19 October, 2023
      Space industry27 min
      Moon rush: the launch of a lunar economy | FT Film

      Which companies will win the rush to the Moon?

      FT Film: Moon Rush
    • Wednesday, 11 October, 2023
      Nasa to launch first mission to metal-rich asteroid

      Eight-year expedition to Psyche aims to shed light on Earth’s origins

      An illustration depicting Nasa’s Psyche space mission
    • Sunday, 24 September, 2023
      Nasa spacecraft brings samples from asteroid to Earth

      Scientists hope rocks and dust taken from 4.7bn-year-old Bennu will provide clues to formation of solar system

    • Monday, 4 September, 2023
      3 min
      Can space mining alleviate shortages of key resources? | FT Energy Source

      The FT's Harry Dempsey asks if asteroids could really help us to replenish scarce resources on Earth

      Space Mining: Lifting Off?
    • Wednesday, 30 August, 2023
      ReviewFT Books Essay
      Space odysseys — trips to discover the cosmos

      Three books explore the future of galactic travel and the sights and experiences that await

      A mass of clouds and starts in the sky
    • Friday, 25 August, 2023
      The Big Read
      The new contest to land on the Moon

      India’s successful landing is the latest manifestation of renewed interest in lunar exploration, driven both by national pride and strategic considerations

      A mother and her daughter arrive at Nehru Planetarium in New Delhi to watch India’s Moon landing
    • Wednesday, 23 August, 2023
      India
      Indian spacecraft makes historic landing at Moon’s South Pole

      Chandrayaan-3 mission gives Narendra Modi a geopolitical boost after Russian crash

      Journalists film the live telecast of spacecraft Chandrayaan-3 landing on the moon
    • Sunday, 20 August, 2023
      Russia’s first post-Soviet Moon mission ends in space crash

      Unmanned craft spins out of control, underscoring decline of space programme since cold war peak

      The Luna-25 is launched
    • Wednesday, 2 August, 2023
      Space industry
      Airbus forms joint venture in bid to replace International Space Station

      Plane maker and US start-up Voyager join race to build commercial alternatives before ISS is decommissioned

      Image of Voyager and Airbus Starlab project
    • Saturday, 1 July, 2023
      European space telescope launches on mission to solve mystery of ‘dark universe’

      €1.4bn Euclid observatory will map billions of galaxies in search of excess energy and matter

    • Monday, 5 June, 2023
      European Space Agency
      European agency aims to develop spacecraft to take astronauts to Moon

      ESA director-general outlines plan to develop independent human launch capability within a decade

      An artist’s image of the European Space Agency’s new-generation rocket launcher, the Ariane 6
    • Tuesday, 30 May, 2023
      China sends first civilian into orbit as Xi pursues ‘eternal dream’

      Shenzhou-16 mission precedes plans to land taikonauts on Moon by 2030

      The Shenzhou-16 spacecraft takes off in Jiuquan on Tuesday
    • Wednesday, 26 April, 2023
      Inside BusinessPeggy Hollinger
      Starship enterprise: the economics of Elon Musk’s bold bet

      Does the satellite industry actually need the enormous capacity that SpaceX has to offer?

      SpaceX’s Starship lifts off from a launchpad near Brownsville, Texas
    • Thursday, 20 April, 2023
      Space Exploration Technologies Corp
      SpaceX rocket explodes before reaching orbit

      Failure to separate from booster leads to setback for Elon Musk-led company building spacecraft capable of flying to Mars

      A picture showing SpaceX’s Starship exploding and breaking into pieces minutes after take off
    • Monday, 17 April, 2023
      Space Exploration Technologies Corp
      Elon Musk’s SpaceX calls off first attempt at Starship launch

      Mission represents important step in billionaire’s quest to take humans to Mars

      SpaceX’s Starship on its launch pad near Brownsville, Texas
    • Friday, 14 April, 2023
      Juice spacecraft begins eight-year voyage to Jupiter after successful launch

      Complex mission will search for signs of ocean life on icy moons close to solar system’s biggest planet

      An Ariane-5 rocket lifts off from its launchpad at the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana
    • Saturday, 11 March, 2023
      Japan’s space ambitions fizzle after rocket failure

      Decade-long effort was source of national pride and meant to be symbol of technological prowess

      The H3 rocket lifts off from Tanegashima in southern Japan
    • Saturday, 4 March, 2023
      Scientists launch new initiative to look for extraterrestrial life

      Astrobiologists believe simple organisms pervade the universe but advanced civilisations are extremely rare

      The ‘Cosmic Cliffs’ of the Carina Nebula
    • Monday, 27 February, 2023
      FT SeriesThe Henry Mance Interview
      Tim Peake: ‘I do not see us having a problem getting to Mars’

      The Henry Mance Interview | The British astronaut is convinced that humans will live on the Red Planet

      Tim Peake
    • Monday, 20 February, 2023
      ReviewArts
      The Last Soviet — podcast tells the fascinating story of a lone cosmonaut

      New series hosted by a former pop star goes back to 1991 and the collapse of the USSR

      A cosmonaut with his helmet removed winces in the sunlight
    • Friday, 10 February, 2023
      Europe’s boldest space mission to search for life in outer solar system

      Juice spacecraft’s ambitious 12-year voyage will observe Jupiter and three of its moons

    • Thursday, 29 December, 2022
      Lex
      Blue sky thinking: Dart defender hits the meteoric mark Premium content

      US space agency’s test altered asteroid’s orbit by about 1%

      The asteroid Dimorphos as seen by the Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft 11 seconds before impact
    • Wednesday, 30 November, 2022
      High ambition as business schools launch space programmes

      As exploration booms, courses are teaching how to back innovation with business nous

      Carlos Velasco has experimented with aromas and virtual-reality headsets to enhance the appeal of food in space
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