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The Starlink technology uses more than 3,000 low Earth small orbit satellites to beam broadband signals

Some stars just get unlucky. There are billions of stars within a typical galaxy. Yet once every 100,000 years or so, one of those stars will wander too close to the supermassive black hole lurking at the galaxy’s centre and be torn apart. These cosmic behemoths weigh in at millions…

The team will complete China’s first-ever crew handover in orbit on board the Tiangong space station, state media says.

Three Chinese astronauts arrived on Wednesday at China's space station for the first in-orbit crew rotation in Chinese space history, launching operation of the second inhabited outpost in low-Earth orbit after the NASA-led International Space Station.

China has launched a rocket carrying three astronauts to complete construction of space station

Nasa's Artemis 1 Orion capsule has broken a record.

NASA's most dramatic return to the Moon since Apollo is now halfway done. The Artemis I Orion capsule has now reached its farthest distance from Earth.

NASA's Orion spacecraft reaches 432,000km from Earth — the farthest distanced scheduled on its Artemis I mission and the farthest any other spacecraft built for humans has travelled.

Nasa's unmanned vessel Orion travelled more than 270,000 miles (430,000km) beyond Earth in the landmark moment for the agency's Artemis 1 mission on Monday