Asgardia works to establish its route map to the future

Strategies for detection, tracking and removal of space junk

Expanding global space markets into deep space

Equatorial commercial launch opportunities for the global space sector

Getting astronauts to the launchpad

Sustainable goals and community engagement win support

Adapting space technology to improve life on Earth

The importance of satellites for constant global data

In conversation with astronaut and former NASA Administrator, Charlie Bolden

On-orbit robotic applications will accelerate the growth of the space economy

The challenges and feasibility of extracting, processing and utilising lunar resources

New multi-mission space utility vehicle

Maximise satellite lifespans through in-orbit refuelling and repair missions

Asgardia space nation establishes its first 'territory' in orbit

Satellites are now delivering real-time maritime awareness

Addressing the human health challenges of life on the red planet

The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) is pursuing a remit to ensure all of humankind can benefit from the use of space.

Cooperation between France and Russia over the past 50 years has delivered benefits to both countries

Outer space as a potentially hazardous area of human activities regularly sends us warnings - like the notorious meteorite shower in Chelyabinsk - that we are not ready to respond quickly and efficiently to challenges from space.

RSC Energia has been conducting activities in rocket-space industry since 1946 when a team of specialists developing long-range ballistic missiles was organised under the leadership of the Chief Designer S.P. Korolev, generally recognised as the founder of practical cosmonautics. The enterprise initiated all lines of activity related to national rocket and space technology. Today, RSC Energia is Russia’s leading rocket-space enterprise and the top organisation in the field of human space systems. In this special article, company President Vladimir Solntsev looks at some of the long term implications for astronautics and the need for international cooperation.

Launching nuclear explosives into space seems like a bad idea and is not something to be treated lightly but there might be times when we need to think seriously about why it might be useful to use nuclear explosives in deep space - and ponder what can be learned just by thinking about it.

The quest to discover Earth 2.0 was a fight against the odds for the Kepler mission

The incredible distances in space will shape and change humanity’s understand of home.

In November 2014, the whole world was watching the historic attempt by Europe to land on the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

Traditionally space science has been funded by tax payers through their governments but the tax payers themselves have not been able to say where the money is to be spent.

Do current plans for manned missions to Mars fully allow for the physical and psychological strain such a voyage would place on crews?

NASA’s MAVEN mission is the first to focus on the upper atmosphere of Mars. Currently in orbit around the red planet, it should deepen our understanding of how Mars’s climate has evolved over the last four billion years

We must invest in technology today if we are going achieve the enormous gains in the field of space exploration that lie within our grasp

Can advances in hypersonics revolutionise flight and access to space?

After decades of research, recent breakthroughs put us on the cusp of reaping hypersonic benefits

Are recent high-profile Asian space projects evidence of technological attainment? Or are they merely exercises in politics?