Space

The Earth will experience a number of (relatively) close calls in one day, as NASA reports that an alarming total of five asteroids will hurtle towards – but happily not quite at – our planet.

It took Fyodor Yurchikhin over a decade to pass the medical tests and qualify for a space mission. He was over 40 when he first left Earth. RT looks at the amazing story of his life between domestic bliss and the stars.

An out-of-control Chinese space station is expected to hit Earth in the next 12 hours. However, experts tracking the decaying orbiter admit they still have no idea exactly where the debris will land.

On the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s death, instead of trying to delve into the unknowable minutia of his final flight, an attempt to understand what really made the first man in space tick down here on Earth.

Progress on a new and expansive desert telescope tasked with helping scientists solve the mysteries of the universe has been captured from space.

SpaceX rolled out its new Falcon Heavy rocket at its Florida facility this week. The company plans to conduct a series of tests designed to prepare the rocket for launch later this month.

NASA has announced the discovery of the 8th exoplanet in the Kepler-90 solar system, making it the only known one with the same number of planets as ours.

Nearly 3,000 hours of historic NASA mission recordings are being saved from obscurity by a team of researchers who have developed a system for transcribing old audio from analog tapes.

SpaceX is well-known for taking risks but launching a classified US military satellite into orbit with a 50 percent chance of success and a category five hurricane bearing down on the launch pad is a whole new frontier.