Extraplanetary spacefaring has a hoary history in science fiction. Elon Musk, our so-touted Mars visionary, is an avid sci-fi ...

Under his leadership, Nasa is expected to accelerate human exploration of the Moon and Mars, aligning with the administration’s Space Policy Directive 1. This directive prioritises US-led missions to ...

A rare colony of red squirrels has been discovered on a tree plantation in the Yorkshire Dales. The endangered species was identified by Julie Bailey from the UK Squirrel Accord (UKSA), a ...

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(AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis, File) TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The yellow name tag that Ales Bialiatski wears on his prison garb sets him apart from other inmates in Penal Colony No. 9 in eastern ...

LONDON - Three lawyers for the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny were found guilty by a Russian court on Friday of belonging to an extremist group and sentenced to years in a penal colony.

Three lawyers for Alexey Navalny, the Kremlin critic who died last year in an Arctic prison, have been found guilty by a Russian court of belonging to an extremist group and jailed for several years.

At the time of his death last year in an Arctic penal colony, Navalny was serving a 19-year prison term on several criminal convictions, including extremism. The independent Russian newspaper ...

SpaceX's Starship exploded into countless fragments of space debris as it reentered the atmosphere over the Caribbean following its seventh test flight. Listen to Story SpaceX's Starship exploded on ...

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India on Thursday became the fourth country to successfully achieve an unmanned docking in space, a feat seen as pivotal for future missions as New Delhi cements its place as a global space power.