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Falcon 9 fails to fire

The new rocket belonging to the company SpaceX attempted to ignite its engines as part of a test, without success.

Visit the ISS with Jeffrey Williams

Using two cameras, the Station Commander is ready to take you on an original trip onboard the orbital complex.

The Station passes the radar

The German satellite TerraSAR-X has observed the International Space Station in a rather unusual way...

Hubble details a cannibal galaxy

The American & European space telescope shows that galaxies are not always "good neighbours"…

The Moon: water ice crops up once again

The saga of the precious liquid on our natural satellite continues! This time an American team is talking about water ice several meters thick...

Planck surveys the entire sky and starts over

The ESA space telescope tasked with observing the Universe just after it came into being has reached an important milestone.

A new way of producing energy?

After having worked for NASA, an engineer has launched a fuel cell which could change our way of producing and consuming electricity.
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Features

  • Avatar’s Venture Star

    The spaceship from James Cameron’s film is far less fanciful than it appears and even plausibly deals with several problems posed by interstellar travel.

  • The Constellation story

    Return to the Moon to take up where, way too soon, Apollo had stopped. Such was the ambition of the Constellation programme on the point of becoming a page in NASA’s history before it has even achieved its objective.

  • Merry Christmas... in orbit!

    Whether you believe it or not, Father Christmas does not forget astronauts despite the obvious lack of a chimney...