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Engineers from McGill University, in Montreal, Canada, say they have developed a laser-thermal propulsion system, where lasers are used to heat hydrogen fuel, to get to Mars in just six weeks.

To better understand how this unusual hibernation process works, Université de Montréal biologist, Matthew Regan, injected the blood of ground squirrels with tracking agents.

The sack built at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center works by using vacuum tech to relieve the fluid pressure on the brain and the optical nerve.

The UK Space Agencys contest is open to children all across the country and will run until March 2022, ensuring kids, parents and teachers have time to enter.

While the crew, equipment and accommodation are in Israel, hosted by the Israel Space Agency, they will all be managed by mission control at the Austrian Space Forum facility in Innsbruck, Austria.

The material can hold over 30 times its own weight while also being flexible was created by experts from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.

China and the US are in a race to Mars - with both nations due to land a rover on the Red Planet this month, and plans for future missions already in development. This new space race, unlike the battle to the Moon between the US and Soviet Union, is likely to be a much more crowded field, including private firms and smaller nations - such as the United Arab Emirates who have a probe en-route to Mars now. SpaceX founder Elon Musk reiterated in a recent interview that his aim is to land the first...

British aircraft engine maker Rolls-Royce has formed an unlikely alliance with the UK Space Agency to develop nuclear-powered spacecraft engines.  The collaboration will see the two organisations working together to explore the potential of nuclear power as a source of energy for future expeditions into deep space. If successful, a nuclear spacecraft could cut the journey time to Mars to just three to four months - roughly half the time possible using current chemical engines. Whats more, the ...