Rafael Clemente

Most civilian satellites are very sensitive to high-energy radiation and an atomic explosion in low Earth orbit would seriously damage telecommunications, GPS, and meteorological services

The SpaceX founder aims to send five unmanned spacecraft to the red planet, taking advantage of the launch window that will open in 2025

In this excerpt from his book, journalist Rafael Clemente recounts the amazing history of space exploration

The USS ‘Halibut,’ under the command of Jack McNish, was a vessel with experience in secret operations and carried very advanced equipment for the 1970s

NASA has taken up SpaceX’s proposal to crash the International Space Station into the Pacific Ocean. The firm plans to do this with a Dragon capsule spacecraft, starting in 2030

The discovery of a gigantic lava tube about 250 miles from where ‘Apollo 11′ landed opens the possibility of taking advantage of these features to construct bases in the near future

Plans are already underway to harvest this material from the lunar surface where lunar water will also be available from its craters

The Asian superpower’s project, which combines elements of the 1960s manned mission programs, kicks off with a lunar satellite launch

After taking advantage of their modest budgets, the Japanese ‘SLIM’ and the U.S. ‘Odysseus’ modules landed on the satellite with difficulty

Japan’s ‘SLIM’ spacecraft executes a challenging landing, showcasing the complexity of this remarkable achievement

American astronauts pressured commanders to reassess their workload, though the episode has been exaggerated

Various initiatives to preserve human history and civilization sent archives into space for extraterrestrial archaeologists to find

After an FAA ruling last April following the failure of the first test launch, the private space company has modified its craft and launch pad to meet authorization requirements

The James Webb telescope just detected carbon dioxide on this Galilean satellite, one of the nearby worlds studied for extraterrestrial life

As SpaceX prepares a new launch of its Starship super rocket, an unknown Chinese company named LandSpace has beaten it to the punch and put an all-methane space shuttle into orbit

In the past, the zero meridian used to be established coinciding with the last known land, beyond which there was only unexplored ocean

The Russian ‘Luna-25,’ which is heading towards the south pole of the Moon, is the first in a series of probes from several countries that will explore its surface in the coming years

Four planetary probes were launched in the 1970s, carrying information about Earth. This was in case – in the very distant future – they were to fall into the hands of an extraterrestrial civilization

On July 21, a human error caused a slight disorientation of the main antenna of the veteran spacecraft, which is beyond the Solar System and could be cut off from Earth until October

SpaceX engineers are facing a serious problem that will have an immediate impact on the U.S. space agency’s plans to send astronauts back to the Moon in 2025

The powerful SpaceX spacecraft, capable of going to the Moon and Mars, exploded when its two modules attempted to separate

With nearly a quarter century of history behind it, the international space station probably won’t make it into the next decade

A new project known as the Habitable World Observatory aims to better understand near-Earth exoplanets and study those that could support life

As soon as the last stage of the rocket was shut down, 10 small satellites were ejected. Some of them have failed to reach their destinations, but most are still active

The NASA capsule traveled nearly 270,000 miles from Earth on its trip to the Moon, a greater distance than the Apollo 13 program achieved in 1970

The new, joint US-EU space program is going back to the Moon