Chinese scientists working on the creation of a Moon base have sent fragments of brick into space to determine how they deal with its hostile environment, Space Daily reports. The…

The Flemish government will contribute €200m to the more than €1bn cost of building the Einstein Telescope – a massive device about 300m underground that will record the passing of…

The US Air Force’s Research Laboratory (AFRL) has broken ground on an $8.7m facility in Albuquerque, New Mexico, that will research and test “re-entry vehicles” that operate in space before…

Chinese officials have revealed more details of its plan to build an International Lunar Research Station (ILRS) on the Moon. The aim is to build a base near the satellite’s…

A team of Chinese researchers is exploring the feasibility of producing building materials on Mars by melting its soil. The possibility of “in-situ resource generation” is being investigated by scientists…

Russia and China are planning five missions to the Moon to place modules on its surface and in orbit around it, Turkey’s Anadolu news agency reports, citing a statement by…

South Korean aerospace and technology company Hanwha Systems has broken ground on a 11,500-sq-m satellite factory on Jeju Island about 100km offshore in the East China Sea. According to The…

Researchers from the University of Michigan have found a way to better use the principles of origami to design structures that are relatively easy to transport, deploy and reconfigure. The…

The governing board of America’s National Science Foundation (NSF) has set a $1.6bn ceiling on its contribution to the cost of building giant telescopes. The decision means that one of…

Russia’s space agency Roscosmos has again floated the idea of putting a nuclear reactor on the Moon. Its director general Yuri Borisov said it could be attempted between 2033 and…

Europe’s first spaceport opened last week on the remote Norwegian island of Andøya following an 18-month construction period, High North News reports. The facility, which is 300km inside the Arctic…

Nasa and the University of California at Berkeley are to collaborate on the development of a 36-acre site in San Jose for research into aviation and space exploration. The 1.4…

Norwegian architect Snøhetta has announced the opening of the Orionis planetarium and observatory in the city of Douai, northern France. The design is based on the domes of the projection…

Chicago architect Perkins & Will has won a design competition for the Bezos Learning Center, a new facility at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC. Located…

The prototype of an orbital solar power station launched in January has beamed power collected in space to Earth for the first time. The Space Solar Power Demonstrator (SSPD) is…

The government of India has approved the construction of a $320m observatory to detect gravitational waves from space to help answer fundamental questions about the universe, the SciTechDaily website reports.…

Construction has begun on the second phase of China’s “compound eye”, a radar system that scans space in search of asteroids on a collision course with the Earth. It is…

The Republic of Korea and Thailand have agreed to work together on a Thai spaceport. The Yonhap news agency reports that Korea’s Ministry of Science has signed a deal with…