Space

Space: the final frontier. From the deep reaches of the James Webb Space Telescope to the small satellites hovering above Earth, to passing meteors and searches for alien life and human missions to the moon, NationalWorld will cover it all. Bringing you expert information, the latest news and breaking stories on space exploration.

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Amazing footage of SpaceX's Starship 25 and Super Heavy Booster 9 lift-off and separation

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Breakaway biscuits will be discontinued due to a decline in sales. Picture: Nestle UK/PA Wire

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A full eclipse of the moon ends as the moon leaves the shadow of the Earth in September 2015 (Photo: Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

2024 lunar eclipses: which 'blood moons' will be visible from the UK?

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When is the next solar eclipse in the UK? Next total eclipse in 2024

A supermoon rises behind Glastonbury Tor in 2015 (Photo: Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

How to see 2024's Supermoons

The Wolf Moon of 2017 rising over Glastonbury Tor in Somerset (Photo: Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

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A picture obtained on December 14, 2013 from Iran's ISNA news agency allegedly shows the launch of the Pajohesh (research) rocket containing a live space monkey named Fargam (Auspicious) at an undisclosed location in Iran. Iran said that it had safely returned a monkey to Earth after blasting it into space in the second such launch this year in its controversial ballistic programme. AFP PHOTO / ISNA NEWS AGENCY / STR

Renewed fears in the West as Iran launches satellite into space

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Spacecraft will crash to Earth today

Collaboration handout image of the dense ball of stars that makes up globular cluster 47 Tucanae (Image: NASA/ESA/Hubble Collaboration/PA Wire)

Astronomers capture most sensitive radio image of ancient star cluster

Handout photo issued by United Launch Alliance (ULA) ahead of the launch of the ULA Vulcan VC2S rocket for Peregrine Mission One (PM1) from Cape Canaveral in Florida. (Image: ULA/PA Wire)

UK instruments on Peregrine are performing well

An artistic impression of what has been dubbed the Big Ring (shown in blue) and Giant Arc (shown in red) would look like in the sky. Picture: Stellarium/University of Central Lancashire/PA Wire

Astronomers find Big Ring which ‘challenges understanding of universe’

Nasa’s Artemis I Moon rocket sits at Launch Pad Complex 39B at Kennedy Space Centre, in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on 15 June 2022 (Photo: EVA MARIE UZCATEGUI/AFP via Getty Images)

What's happening with Nasa's Artemis Moon Mission?

Researchers shared the first image of an odd radio circle, captured by the MeerKAT radio telescope, in 2022. (Image: J. English (U. Manitoba)/EMU/MeerKAT/DES (CTIO))

Huge radio rings in space may be due to exploding stars

Handout photo issued by United Launch Alliance (ULA) ahead of the launch of the ULA Vulcan VC2S rocket for Peregrine Mission One (PM1) from Cape Canaveral in Florida. (Image: ULA/PA Wire)

Peregrine suffers a loss of propellant’ ending private moon mission

Image issued by SaxaVord UK Spaceport to illustrate a mock rocket taking off from Lamba Ness in Unst. SaxaVord UK Spaceport/PA Photo.

Senior minister for space launches needed as lift-off happens in 2024

The Peregrine lander carrying the Peregrine Ion Trap Mass Spectrometer (PITMS), which will be onboard the Peregrine Mission One (PM1) (Image: Esa/Nasa/The Open University/STFC RAL Space/Astrobotic/PA Wire)

How the UK built instruments for Nasa's Peregrine Mission One mission

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Peregrine: the historic US Moon mission with UK tech onboard

The theory of Earth's defence has only just been proven but long theorised. Picture: Getty

Does the Earth have a natural defence against asteroids?

Members of the York Astronomical Society prepare to view the annual Perseids meteor shower in August 2015 (Photo: OLI SCARFF/AFP via Getty Images)

Quadrantid meteor shower - UK skywatchers await brief but intense peak

The Quadrantids meteor shower will light up skies this month (Image: Getty)

Astronomical events in January 2024 to look out for

Old Moore’s Almanac 2024 predictions include advancements in AI, an assisination warning for Donald Trump and a huge decline in birth rates. Composite image by NationalWorld/Kim Mogg.

Old Moore’s Almanac 2024 predictions list: what are they?

This year has seen some remarkable milestones, from world first transplants to the oldest objects in the universe (Image: Bill Ingalls/NASA via Getty Images)

The best science stories of 2023 - from AI to deep space

UK father shares footage of 'UFO' years after Dudley Dorito sightings

Watch: UK father shares new footage of 'UFO' in Black Country skies

The special spot for Father Christmas to park is easy to see when he is doing his rounds in the sky on Christmas Eve.

Where does Father Christmas park his sleigh? His new rooftop spot!

An illustration of what vertical rocket launches in Scotland could look like (SaxaVord)

Where will the spaceport for UK's first vertical rocket launch be?

A parking spot for Father Christmas appears on top of Aldi store

Computer generated image (CGI) issued by SaxaVord UK spaceport of a rocket taking off from Lamba Ness in Unst. (Image: SaxaVord UK/PA Wire)

Spaceports get £6.7m as Europe aims to lead small satellite launches

Neil Armstrong steps into history July 20, 1969 by leaving the first human footprint on the surface of the moon. The 30th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing on the moon is being commemorated on July 20, 1999. (Image: NASA/Newsmakers)

Scientists argue the Moon is in a new epoch

This original shot taken with the adaptive optique system (NACO) set on the Very Large Telescope (VLT) of the European Southern Observatory (ESO), shows the supergiant star Betelgeuse, in the Orion constellation.

Watch this famous star disappear in a 'once-in-a-lifetime' event

Halley's Comet in 1986 (Image: Liaison)

Halley's Comet reaches the furthest distance from the Sun this weekend

This screen grab made from video footage from ISRO via AFPTV taken on July 14, 2023 shows an Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) rocket carrying the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft (Image: ISRO/AFPTV/AFP via Getty Images)

Chandrayaan-3 now circled the Earth after its historic moon mission

A picture obtained on December 14, 2013 from Iran's ISNA news agency allegedly shows the launch of the Pajohesh (research) rocket containing a live space monkey named Fargam (Auspicious) (Image: -/AFP via Getty Images)

Iran sends animals into space as it prepares for human missions

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is shown in a clean room at the Astrotech Space Operations facility near the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on 8 Dec 2022. DSOC’s gold-capped flight laser transceiver can be seen, near center, attached to the spacecraft. (Image: NASA/Ben Smegelsky)

Nasa receives a message from 10 million miles away

Artist's impression showing the HH 1177 system (Image: PA)

Astronomers find first planet-forming disk beyond the Milky Way

An artist’s rendering of the view from LHS 3154b towards its tiny host star (Image: Penn State)

Scientists discover a planet that shouldn't exist

A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft launches on the Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station with NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley onboard at Launch Complex 39A May 30, 2020, at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida. (Photo by SpaceX via Getty Images)

SpaceX rocket punctures a hole in the ionosphere

A Long March 5 rocket carrying China's Chang'e-5 lunar probe launches from the Wenchang Space Center on China's southern Hainan Island on November 24, 2020 Picture: STR/AFP via Getty Images

'Out of control' Chinese rocket causes 'unusual' crater on the moon

‘Cannibal’ solar storm: Geomagnetic flares explained, when is it heading to Earth? Picture: NASA via Getty Images

Today's solar storm may cause internet blackouts

The night sky always offers something stunning (Image: YE AUNG THU/AFP via Getty Images)

Astronomical events to watch out for in December 2023

A meteor streaking through the night sky over Myanmar during the Geminid meteor shower (Photo: YE AUNG THU/AFP via Getty Images)

Geminids meteor shower 2023: When does it peak - and viewing tips

Space!

A high energy particle has been detected from the Local Void in space

A photograph of Mars taken by Nasa's Hubble Space Telescope (Picture: Nasa/Getty Images)

UK to join European mission in the hunt for life on Mars

John McFall in zero gravity as he undergoes tests to be sent into space (ESA/Novespace)

British astronaut worried his prosthetic leg could poison the ISS crew

Mouse embryos have been grown in space

First mammal embryos grown on International Space Station

The International Space Station photographed by Expedition 56 crew members from a Soyuz spacecraft after undocking. Picture: NASA/Roscosmos

Nasa detects hundreds of methane gas sources from space station

The M87 supermassive black hole in polarised light, photo courtesy of EHT Collaboration.

World-renowned black hole M87 is losing energy through outward jets

The NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) instrument on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s reveals a portion of the Milky Way’s dense core in a new light. An estimated 500,000 stars shine in this image of the Sagittarius C (Sgr C) region, along with some as-yet unidentified features. A large region of ionized hydrogen, shown in cyan, contains intriguing needle-like structures that lack any uniform orientation. (Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, and S. Crowe (University of Virginia)).

Webb Telescope snaps picture of 500,000 stars forming in the Milky Way

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Will the Earth collide with a lost asteroid next year?

Mars (Picture: Nasa/Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Cornell University via Getty Images)

AI powered robot can turn Martian water into oxygen