On the 26th of November 2011, the Mars Science Laboratory was launched from Cape Canaveral. This time lapse sequence shows a plume drifting against the background stars, probably caused by venting from the Centaur rocket after it carried out a burn over the Indian Ocean.

The European spacecraft Rosetta has become the first ever to catch up with a comet. It is a landmark step in a decade-long mission that scientists hope will help unlock some of the secrets of the solar system. Rosetta will accompany comet 67P/Churymov-Gerasimenko on its trip around the sun and land ...

Watch live coverage as 'Star Trek' actor William Shatner goes to the edge of space on a private Blue Origin flight. If successful, Shatner, who is 90 years old, will be the oldest person to reach space.

Shuttle Endeavour's six astronauts have checked the systems they need to bring NASA's next-to-last space shuttle flight to an end. They are expected to land early Wednesday Morning June 1st, 2011.

Swiss Space Center at EPFL just launched the "CleanSpace One" project. The aim is to design and build a satellite that will chase, grab and destroy a space debris - namely one of the first Swiss satellites, Swisscube-1 or TIsat-1.

Atlas V roars off the launch pad sending NASA's next Mars rover toward the Red Planet. The launch date was November 26, 2011 and the landing in Mars is scheduled for August 6, 2012.

A SpaceX rocket equipped with the first commercially developed crew capsule began a critical test Saturday morning March 2, 2019, when it blasted off toward the International Space Station. There was no one on board but that capsule could be used to take astronauts into space late this year.

Mars is a cold and barren desert today, but scientists think that in the ancient past it was warm and wet. The loss of the early Martian atmosphere may have led to this dramatic change, and one of the prime suspects is the solar wind. Unlike Earth, Mars lacks a global magnetic field to deflect the s

In this video we go to South America! In the Atacama Desert, Chile, we find the most advanced technology for space observation. Here, the Royal Astronomical Community members watched for six months as a black hole simply absorbed a massive star. By the way, these are the same scientists who proved t...

This video was actually 'recorded live' so to speak, under the silver arch! The silence you hear, is the silence of the dark night in a clearing way up high in the Sierra Nevada Mountain range. Quite a profound and moving experience.