Space Travel

Cheap and efficient space travel would be a golden goose for any nation that cracked it

Project Breakthrough Starshot plans to send robot spacecraft to our closest star, Alpha Centauri, on a trip that will take 20 years.

The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter will circle the planet and measure minute levels of atmospheric gases.

Four South Africans are among the 100 hopefuls who have made it through to round three of the Mars One human settlement mission.

A trio of astronauts who carried an Olympic torch for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games into space last year, have landed safely despite bad weather.

Florence Porcel, a Frenchwoman living in Paris, would give anything to live on Mars, saying she has always felt "a bit cramped on Earth".

China has successfully begun its first rover mission to the moon, sending a robotic craft named Jade Rabbit to trek across the lunar landscape.

An astronaut living at the International Space Station has taken South Africa to new heights by tweeting pictures of the country as seen from space.

Elon Musk is a South African who has transformed online commerce, cars and space travel, and dreams of sending the first humans to Mars.

China’s next manned space mission will launch between June and August, carrying three astronauts to an experimental space module, says a report.

SA-born entrepreneur Elon Musk’s SpaceX has launched its Dragon space capsule toward the International Space Station after a delay on Saturday.

Three weeks after the 50th anniversary of the Russian who became the first man to travel in space, the US is honouring the man who followed him.

Astronomers have discovered a potentially habitable planet of similar size to Earth in orbit around a nearby star.