The farther you look into space, the farther back in time you’ll see

The European Space Agency’s GOCE satellite (Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer) has just imaged the Earth’s gravity in HD

There have been many different attempts by scientists and engineers to devise a way to build a space tether or ‘elevator’ and yes most of them involve constructing a really long cable of some kind – 38,000km or more to be exact

Europe’s first mission dedicated to studying the Earth’s ice was launched today from Kazakhstan

Unfortunately no

UK researchers based in Surrey have designed an ingenius new device to clear the multitude of space junk orbiting around Earth

In preparation for the Mars500 project which begins in May, four candidates who wish to accompany the mission at a later date (only two can go), have volunteered to be locked away in steel containers for 18 months in order to test their mental resilience for extended spaceflight

Phobos, Mars’ small rocky moon, has been imaged closer than ever before by the European Space Agency’s Mars Express spacecraft

This video acts as a basic introduction to how NASA’s Ares 1 launch system will carry Orion crew exploration vehicles into space

The Soyuz spacecraft that was launched from Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan has docked with the International Space Station

They may not be as interesting as the moons around Uranus but Saturn’s rings do bear further investigation..