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Space agency mounts rescue mission to bring home two cosmonauts and US astronaut marooned on ISS

Russia’s space corporation Roscosmos says it will launch a new spacecraft to take some of the International Space Station’s crew back to Earth after their capsule was damaged and leaked coolant

Russia said on Wednesday it would launch another Soyuz spacecraft next month to bring home two cosmonauts and a U.S. astronaut from the International Space Station after their original capsule was struck by a micrometeoroid and started leaking last month.

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For the next three weeks, you might be able to catch a glimpse of the comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF). Here's how

Elon Musks' Starlink is sending even more internet satellites into its giant low-Earth constellation.

An attempt to make British space history by launching a rocket into orbit from UK soil suffered an “anomaly” during the flight

The UK’s first rocket launch ended in failure, but what happened to the Virgin Orbit space launch?

The second stage of the launch suffered an “anomaly”, meaning the rocket and its payload was lost.