Washington, United States - Four astronauts splashed down off Florida in the Gulf of Mexico on their return to Earth early Tuesday, following a more than six-month mission on the International Space Station. The SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft landed in the waters off Pensacola at 5:47 am (0947 GMT), with a...

Paris, France - Extraction of Earth's natural resources could surge 60 percent by 2060, imperiling climate goals and economic prosperity, the UN said on Friday, calling for dramatic changes in energy, food, transport and housing. Enormous expansion of infrastructure, energy demand and consumer consumption over the last half century, particularly in...

Washington, US - President Joe Biden on Saturday hailed the landing of a US spacecraft on the Moon as a historic achievement in space research led by the United States. The uncrewed Odysseus lander, built by a private company and funded by NASA, landed near the lunar south pole Thursday, more...

Intuitive Machines, the Houston company, hopes to become the first non-government entity to achieve a soft touchdown on the Moon.

Iran's Revolutionary Guards launched a research satellite, a minister said, putting it into a higher orbit in a milestone for its aerospace program that has faced Western criticism. The United States has warned Iran against such launches, saying the technology can be used for ballistic missiles, including ones designed to...

PARIS, FRANCE - The year of 2023 was the hottest on record, with the increase in Earth's surface temperature nearly crossing the critical threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius, EU climate monitors said on Tuesday. Climate change intensified heatwaves, droughts and wildfires across the planet, and pushed the global thermometer 1.48 C...

New Delhi, India - India's solar observation mission on Saturday entered the Sun's orbit after a four-month journey, the latest success for the space exploration ambitions of the world's most populous nation. The Aditya-L1 mission was launched in September and is carrying an array of instruments to measure and observe the...

Abu Dhabi, UAE - Masdar City, an Abu Dhabi, UAE-based sustainability and innovation hub dedicated to making all cities a solution to climate change, has announced the region’s first net-zero energy mosque. Masdar City hopes to set a new industry standard for houses of worship in the region through an...

Dubai, UAE--Rising sea levels, vanishing Arctic landscapes, fading coral reefs, acidic oceans, and raging forest fires are common occurrences today. Climate change is escalating its aggressive posture before a full scale assault on humanity. A new study found that it costs the world $16.3 million per hour. On November 17,...

PARIS, FRANCE -  Countries' greenhouse gas-cutting pledges put Earth on track for warming far beyond key limits, potentially up to a catastrophic 2.9 degrees Celsius this century, the UN said Monday, warning "we are out of road". The UN Environment Program's annual Emissions Gap report is released just ahead of crucial...

Paris, France - Billionaire Elon Musk said on Saturday that his Starlink satellite service would support internet access for "internationally recognized aid organizations in Gaza," which have faced a telecommunications blackout since Friday. Starlink is a network of satellites in low Earth orbit that can provide internet to remote locations, or...

OSIRIS-REx wasn't the first mission to rendezvous with an asteroid and bring back samples for study -- Japan succeeded in the feat twice, returning bits of space pebbles in 2010 and 2020. But the substantial amount of material -- 250 grams (half a pound) -- as opposed to the 5.4...

New Delhi, India - As hopes dim of further contact with India's Moon rover, the country's space chief has said he was satisfied with the prospect of calling its successful lunar mission to an end. India began exploring the Moon's surface in August after becoming just the fourth nation to land...

Dugway, United States-- A seven-year space voyage came to its climactic end Sunday when a NASA capsule landed in the desert in the US state of Utah, carrying to Earth the largest asteroid samples ever collected. Scientists have high hopes for the sample, saying it will provide a better understanding of...

According to MBRSC, Sultan AlNeyadi will continue his mission in order to benefit from the scientific experiments that he took part in during his six-month long stay on board the International Space Station (ISS). In the morning today, he and his three fellow astronauts splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean.

Dubai, UAE – Sultan AlNeyadi, along with his international crewmates, is set to return to Earth on September 3 after spending 6 months aboard the International Space Station, Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) announced on Wednesday.   This is the longest Arab space mission in history.  AlNeyadi, joined by NASA...

Unlike other companies that use vertical-launch rockets, Virgin Galactic uses a carrier aircraft that takes off from a runway, gains high altitude, and drops a rocket-powered plane that soars into space before gliding back to Earth.

The asteroid, named 2023 DZ2, is estimated to be 40 to 70 metres wide, roughly the size of the Parthenon, and big enough to wipe out a large city if it hit our planet.

The Kingdom is studying the feasibility of investing in the futuistic UK project, which if materialized may play an important role in combating climate change.

Sharjah, UAE - The Sharjah Academy for Astronomy, Space Sciences and Technology (SAASST) of the University of Sharjah (UoS), has received the first communication signal from its first CubeSat, “Sharjah-Sat-1,” on Tuesday, once it reached its orbit around Earth. Sharjah-Sat-1 is the first miniaturized satellite, launched by SAASST on Jan...

Paris, France--A newly discovered comet could be visible to the naked eye as it shoots past Earth and the Sun in the coming weeks for the first time in 50,000 years, astronomers have said. The comet is called C/2022 E3 (ZTF) after the Zwicky Transient Facility, which first spotted it...

Montreal, Canada-- Creating a new global fund for biodiversity -- a core demand of developing countries at UN talks in Montreal -- "would take years" and be less effective than reforming existing financial mechanisms, Canada's environment minister said Tuesday. Ottawa's position reflects the consensus among developed nations on the thorny issue,...

Monday's was the last major maneuver of the mission, which began when NASA's mega Moon rocket SLS blasted off from Florida on November 16. From start to finish, the journey should last 25 and a half days. Orion will now make only slight course corrections until it splashes down in...

WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES - NASA's Orion spacecraft was placed in lunar orbit Friday, officials said, as the much-delayed Moon mission proceeded successfully. A little over a week after the spacecraft blasted off from Florida bound for the Moon, flight controllers "successfully performed a burn to insert Orion into a distant...

Given the increase in life expectancy as well as the number of people of childbearing age, the UN projects the population to continue growing to about 8.5 billion in 2030, 9.7 billion in 2050, and a peak of about 10.4 billion in the 2080s. Other groups have, however, calculated different...

The DART spaceship will be smacked into asteroid moonlet Dimorphos to deflect its orbit, testing our ability to stop cosmic objects from devastating life on Earth.

An international research team on Monday revealed the first images of the Orion Nebula captured with the James Webb Space Telescope, leaving astronomers "blown away." The stellar nursery is situated in the constellation Orion, 1,350 light-years away from Earth, in a similar setting in which our own solar system was...

After the latest delay, there are backup opportunities on Monday or Tuesday. After that, the next launch window will not be until September 19, due to the Moon's position.

Climate change has already caused "irreversible losses" for Nature, UN experts have said, warning that if emissions are not cut quickly, warming could trigger chain reactions with potentially catastrophic effects for all species, including humans. All forms of life on Earth are linked together by a vast web of causes...

The UAE and Israel are inviting universities and research institutes in both countries to submit joint research proposals based on data collected from an Israeli Vegetation and Environment Monitoring New Micro Satellite, which monitors the environment and vegetation on earth. The UAE Space Agency, Israeli Ministry of Innovation, Science and...

The company will make a rocket to bring back rocks from Mars.

The James Webb Space Telescope, some three decades in the making, will leave Earth enclosed in its Ariane 5 rocket from Kourou Space Centre in French Guiana.

The goal is to slightly alter the trajectory of Dimorphos, a "moonlet" around 525 feet wide that circles a much larger asteroid called Didymos.

Countries with poor economies will face severe consequences of climate change caused by the rich nations.

The study in Science analysed high-resolution images captured by Perseverance of the cliffs that were once the banks of the delta.

Jared Isaacman, who financed the trip with a goal of making space a bit more accessible, said it was heck of a ride

Inspiration4 is the first orbital spaceflight with only private citizens aboard

The equity investment was reportedly a part of Interstellar Lab's latest $3-million seed round.

Years in the making, the sobering United Nations report approved by 195 nations shines a harsh spotlight on governments dithering in the face of mounting evidence that climate change is an existential threat.