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SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket has finally made a successful landing after launch, marking a big moment for company CEO Elon Musk and his attempts to prove the reusability of the rocket, as well as the benefits of doing so. The SpaceX launch and landing this week was a much...

The first British astronaut on the International Space Station encountered a few problems phoning home for Christmas.

When trying to phone his wife, Major Peake heard a woman answer so asked: “Hello, is that planet Earth?”

Russia and India continue actively promoting strategic partnership and coordinating political and economic activities, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday during talks with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The leak, initially discovered at the beginning of December, have proven surprisingly stubborn, and now, John M. Grunsfeld, the associate administrator for NASA’s science directorate says, “we just have run out of time”.

In 1955, Sears ran an ad with a Santa hotline number kids could call to track the fat man’s progress.

Weather permitting the astronauts on the International Space Station will be passing over the United Kingdom today and can be passed off as Santa on his sleigh going about his important work.

Dakota Blankenship readies phones, computers and decorations in a conference room at the North American Aerospace Defense Command Monday, December 21, 2015 in preparation for for NORAD’s 60th anniversary of tracking Santa.

A leak in the instrument appears unable to be fixed by the craft’s planned launch window from March 4 to March 30, 2016.

The Soyuz space capsule launched Tuesday is carrying Peake as well as Russian Yuri Malenchenko, U.S. citizen Tim Kopra.

A white ball of light with a fiery tail that streaked across the night skies over Arizona was debris from a newly launched Russian rocket re-entering the earth’s atmosphere, the U.S. Strategic Command said Wednesday.

The traveller was forced to leave an answerphone message for his parents after calling them from the space station because they had ‘popped out’.

Chinese court Tuesday sentenced lawyer Pu Zhiqiang to a suspended prison term, allowing one of China’s most prominent rights advocates to avoid further incarceration despite his conviction for online speech that authorities deemed to be incendiary.

NASA on Tuesday said it has suspended its next mission to Mars by at least two years due to a leak in a highly sensitive instrument key to the operation. The European Space Agency is still on track to launch its ExoMars orbiter next March, and send out an ExoMars rover in 2018.

Challenges that no country can afford to ignore, that will undoubtedly impact on us all in one way or another – as we live in an ever globalised world and economy.