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'Not high enough': Bezos' criticism to Branson before first space trip

Jeff Bezos has lashed out, saying Branson is not going high enough to be a real astronaut.

Billionaire blast-off: All you need to know about Branson's trip to space

Virgin boss racing to beat Amazon's Jeff Bezos as first rich rocket man to leave planet.

Billionaire space race: Richard Branson's bid to outdo Jeff Bezos

Richard Branson is aiming to beat fellow billionaire Jeff Bezos into space by nine days.

'Closest in a generation': Nasa gets close-ups of Jupiter's moon

Nasa released two pictures highlighting Ganymede's crater

Nasa releases stunning new pic of Milky Way's 'downtown'

Composite pic depicts billions of stars and countless black holes in heart of Milky Way.

Virgin Galactic rocket ship ascends from New Mexico

Virgin Galactic forges toward tourist flights to the edge of the Earth's atmosphere.

China 'wins gamble' with rocket debris strike

Uncontrolled re-entry of high-speed spacecraft parts criticised as 'reckless' and 'lazy'.

Nasa chief big on climate, diversity, hedges on moon date

As well as reaching for the stars, Bill Nelson wants to diversify the Nasa workforce.

Nasa's Mars helicopter blades heard humming on red planet

Nasa is sharing the sound of its little helicopter humming through the thin Martian air.

Jeff Tallon: ET hype defies objectivity

Opinion: Overstatement of 'life out there' claims should sound alarm bells.

Life on Venus? The picture gets cloudier

New York Times: Researchers who detected unusual gas in the atmosphere stand by findings.

US and UAE follow closely as China receives its first Mars image

Mars is about to be at centre of an extraordinary confluence of interplanetary missions.

'Never forgotten': 35 years since Challenger disaster

Families of fallen astronauts have marked the 35th anniversary of the Challenger disaster.

First woman, next man on moon will come from these Nasa 18

NASA has named the 18 astronauts who will train for its Artemis moon-landing programme.

Space race: 140 Kiwi businesses chasing a trillion-dollar opportunity

New Zealand's space race is far bigger than Rocket Lab, writes Kevin Jenkins.

Home sweet home in orbit

New York Times: A visual tour of the ISS, humanity's high-tech home in the sky.

How the Space Station became a base to launch humanity's future

New York Times: Outpost in orbit seen as a linchpin for future economic activity in space.

No space! Asteroid samples falling out of Nasa spacecraft

Osiris-Rex spacecraft is stuffed with so much asteroid rubble that it's jammed open.