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The five The five: space missions for 2021

After 2020, anyone would be forgiven for wanting to escape Earth, and Mars, the moon and the asteroid belt beckon

Published: 10 Jan 2021

British engineers to start work on 'comet chaser' probe

Published: 13 Dec 2020
Hayabusa2 comes home: remarkable space probe could open another window into how life originated

Published: 4 Dec 2020

Rock of ages: how asteroid dust may reveal secrets of life on Earth

A six-year mission will soon bring back a few grains of soil that could explain how water arrived on our planet

Published: 15 Nov 2020

Nasa Osiris-Rex spacecraft lands on asteroid Bennu in mission to collect dust

Spacecraft ‘kissed the surface’ in brief landing on asteroid 200m miles away from Earth in US-first mission

Published: 20 Oct 2020

Spacewatch European Space Agency awards Hera asteroid mission to German firm

Deal worth £118m covers design, manufacturing and testing of ESA’s first planetary defence mission

Published: 17 Sep 2020

Spacewatch Osiris-Rex mission on course for asteroid sample collection

Nasa spacecraft makes final preparations to gather material from Bennu’s surface in October

Published: 20 Aug 2020
Spacewatch Nasa Trojan asteroids mission on course for October 2021 launch

Lucy spacecraft has passed its system integration review and can now be assembled and tested

Published: 6 Aug 2020

Brief letters Get out of a pickle and into chutney

Brief letters: Making chutney | Lockdown marmalade | Father Jack and Trump | Mathematical fright | Morse code clapping

Published: 29 Apr 2020

Published: 29 Apr 2020
Interstellar object ‘Oumuamua believed to be ‘active asteroid’

Scientists believe cigar-shaped visitor to our solar system is fragment of a larger body

Published: 13 Apr 2020

The world’s oldest asteroid strike in Western Australia may have triggered a global thaw

A new study showing the 70km-wide Yarrabubba crater dates impact to 2.29bn years ago

Published: 21 Jan 2020
The moon, Mars and beyond… the space race in 2020

Not since the 1960s have we witnessed such appetite for space missions. Here’s what to expect in the year ahead, from commercial launches to Chinese ambitions

Published: 5 Jan 2020

Be wary of Elon Musk despoiling the ‘vault of heaven’

Martin Rees

It’s feasible to flood space with flotillas of small satellites – but do we really want to?

Published: 29 Dec 2019

Published: 29 Dec 2019

New evidence shows how asteroid dust cloud may have sparked new life on Earth 470m years ago

Isotope found in seabed sediment points to clash of solar bodies near Mars, study suggests

Published: 12 Oct 2019

Spacewatch Spacewatch: Japan's Hayabusa 2 targets final asteroid landing

Two target markers deployed around Ryugu ahead of lander’s planned descent next month

Published: 19 Sep 2019
Dust cloud sparked explosion in primitive life on Earth, say scientists

Smashing of monster asteroid half a billion years ago thought to have caused mini ice age

Published: 18 Sep 2019

The greatest threat to life on Earth may come from space

Asteroids and space debris could wreak untold devastation on the planet

Published: 31 Aug 2019

Ancient asteroid crater located off coast of Scotland

Space object about a mile wide believed to have crashed into Earth around 1.2bn years ago

Published: 9 Jun 2019

Protect solar system from mining 'gold rush', say scientists

Proposal calls for wilderness protection as startup space miners look to the stars

Published: 12 May 2019

Japan’s Hayabusa 2 probe to fire pellet at asteroid to obtain samples

Spacecraft will shoot pellet at more than 650mph into Ryugu’s surface to kick up dust

Published: 21 Feb 2019

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