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Northern Ireland woman Rosemary Coogan has gained her astronaut wings, graduating from space training as a new European Space Agency (Esa) astronaut.
A major global space mission has launched today that will see a British-built science component land on the moon for the first time.
The first US lunar lander in more than 50 years is now on its way to the Moon after launching this morning.
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Lunar lander’s solar panels prevented from facing towards sun as situation unfolds with team ‘responding in real time’
The Peregrine Mission One (PM1) is set to become the first private probe to land on the lunar surface.