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India successfully launched its biggest ever rocket, including an unmanned capsule which could one day send astronauts into space.

• 18 декабря 2014, 14:25

Many space objects remain undiscovered and some of them pose a threat to the Earth. Astrophysicist Victor Teifel says it is time to build a special station for detection of asteroids in Kazakhstan.

• 15 декабря 2014, 13:11

NASA's Orion vehicle aims to carry humans farther into space than ever before, but its protective heat shield is basically the same as that used for the Apollo Moon missions.

• 06 декабря 2014, 11:37

Japan launched a rocket carrying a space probe destined for a distant asteroid, just weeks after a European spacecraft's historic landing on a comet.

• 03 декабря 2014, 14:14

Famous Kazakh cosmonaut Talgat Musabayev praises the Rosetta mission, which saw a space probe landing on the surface of a comet for the first time in human history.

• 17 ноября 2014, 12:49

Robot probe Philae uploaded a slew of data to Earth from a deep-space comet that it drilled into long after its onboard battery was feared to have died.

• 15 ноября 2014, 11:54

Europe's comet probe Philae was "working well" despite a rough-and-tumble touchdown that left it partly shadowed from battery-boosting sunlight.

• 14 ноября 2014, 12:45

High-tech entrepreneur Elon Musk confirmed that he is working on a web of small, low-cost satellites that could provide wireless Internet around the world.

• 12 ноября 2014, 14:46

One of the biggest gambles in space history comes to a climax on Wednesday when Europe attempts to make the first-ever landing on a comet.

• 08 ноября 2014, 14:37

Authorities who carried out their first full day of investigation into a US spacecraft crash said probing the incident could take a year.

• 03 ноября 2014, 12:48

Orbital Sciences postponed its planned launch of the Cygnus cargo ship toward the International Space Station.

• 28 октября 2014, 15:23

Orbital Sciences Corporation's unmanned Cygnus cargo ship is preparing to launch to the International Space Station.

• 27 октября 2014, 12:30

A comet the size of a small mountain whizzed past Mars, dazzling space enthusiasts with the once-in-a-million-years encounter.

• 20 октября 2014, 12:18

An American and a German astronaut spent just over six hours on a spacewalk outside the International Space Station for equipment repairs and maintenance.

• 08 октября 2014, 13:14

SpaceX's unmanned Dragon spacecraft was nearing the International Space Station with a cargo of supplies.

• 23 сентября 2014, 15:13

Thick clouds and rain over the Florida coast early forced the California-based SpaceX to postpone the launch of its Dragon cargo carrier.

• 20 сентября 2014, 14:38

NASA selected Boeing and SpaceX to build America's next spacecraft to carry astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) by 2017.

• 17 сентября 2014, 18:00

Russia plans to set up two station of the System of Differential Correction and Monitoring (SDCM) for GLONASS in Kazakhstan.

• 16 сентября 2014, 17:33

SpaceX's next unmanned cargo trip to restock supplies at the International Space Station is scheduled for September 20, the US space agency said.

• 13 сентября 2014, 10:56

A SpaceX rocket exploded in midair during a test flight, as the company seeks to develop a spacecraft that can return to Earth.

• 23 августа 2014, 10:51