Dubai to become UAE’s gateway to space
Dubai is to build a Dhs20 million first-of-its-kind scientific entertainment and tourism centre at Mushrif Park, as the Emirate becomes the gateway to the world of outer space. A project of Dubai...
Europe presses ahead with Mars rover
Europe will push ahead with its plan to put a UK-assembled robotic rover on the surface of Mars in 2021. Research ministers meeting in Lucerne, Switzerland, have agreed to stump up the outstanding...
Scientists Probe Mystery of Pluto’s Icy Heart
Was Pluto’s frozen heart formed in an ancient impact basin and was it once closer to the north pole? And does the icy heart conceal a subsurface ocean? Scientists are offering several new scenarios...
Thousands displaced for China’s huge telescope
Humanity’s best bet at detecting aliens is a giant silver Chinese dish the size of 30 football fields — one that simultaneously showcases Beijing’s abilities to deploy cutting-edge...
NASA Radio on Europe’s New Mars Orbiter Aces Relay Test
Data from each of the two rovers active on Mars reached Earth last week in the successful first relay test of a NASA radio aboard Europe’s new Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO). The transmissions from...
Russia’s new cargo spacecraft to make first flight after 2020
Russia’s new generation cargo spacecraft, due to replace the current Progress MS family, is scheduled to begin flights to the International Space State ISS after 2020, the designer of all of...
NASA Sets Space Fire!
Fire safety is a crucial component of space living. As we partner with industry and international space agencies to develop deep space habitation capabilities, we are leveraging every opportunity to...
Former astronaut Thomas Reiter talks space travel, Mars and the next generation of astronauts
Three new astronauts are on their way to the ISS. DW asked Thomas Reiter, the German coordinator of the ISS program, what advice he would offer them, and if he wouldn’t rather be up there...
