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The first test flight of a new spaceship is almost over. The Crew Dragon of SpaceX has left the international space station ISS almost a week after his arrival. In the…

The capsule Crew Dragon of the company of businessman Elon Musk was successfully linked to the international space station ISS on Sunday. Saturday the capsule with a rocket from the company SpaceX...

It is fifty years ago this summer that the American Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, as the first human ever. Those glory days of American space travel are over. The country has been...

The Israeli lunar explorer Beresheet was successfully launched on Friday morning shortly before 3.00 am (Dutch time). The unmanned rocket departed from Cape Canaveral space base in the...

An egg sandwich and a big glass of champagne. That was the first thing that 41-year-old Wassenaarder Mark Slats took to himself last night after a solo sailing race around the world in 214 days, 12 hours and 18 minutes....

(ANP)- The protest movement of American students for safe schools and the extermination of gun violence March For Our Lives, is the winner of the International Children's Peace Prize 2018.

The former South African president Frederik Willem de Klerk is hospitalized. The 82-year-old winner of the Nobel Peace Prize has a lung disease, reports his FW de Klerk Foundation.

A woman drowned during a baptismal ceremony in the sea near South Africa. During the ceremony she was seized by an undercurrent. The South African rescue brigade went out to sea, but the Miracle lifeboat could not mean anything more to the woman. A kilometer away her physical remains were found.

A bus accident in the vicinity of Cape Town killed at least eight people on Thursday. Approximately 30 passengers were injured. The death toll can still rise because passengers are still trapped under the overturned vehicle. The chief of the traffic police of the Western Cape province said this in the South African media.

A bizarre fish species that is older than the dinosaurs threatens to die out.

The launch of the Parker Solar Probe space probe has been successful on Sunday. Exactly at 9.31 am the rockets went into the air. On Saturday the launch was canceled at the last moment. In preparation, disturbances were found in the data of the launcher.

The launch of the Parker Solar Probe space probe was canceled on Saturday at the last minute. In the preparations, irregularities were found in the data of the launcher. On Sunday NASA will try again to launch the probe. The scheduled time is 9.31 am (Dutch time).

The lion's den. An American satellite goes there on Saturday. The Parker Solar Probe goes to the sun. He arrives there in November. The solar probe should teach us more about the atmosphere of the sun.

Because of the Jaws movie, we know more than forty years later, who is the mutilated woman who was found in Cape Cod in 1974 in the dunes.

A man in a mosque in South African Malmesbury with a large knife cut on believers and two people killed before the police killed him. According to local media, it is not known what the perpetrator moved. He went before he began the stabbing among the believers and also seemed to prepare for a prayer.

After a failed first launch attempt, it was still possible to get a new type of the Falcon 9 rocket into space.

The American space company SpaceX has the first commercial cargo ever delayed the launch of the Falcon 9 rocket. The rocket would have to bring a satellite for the government of Bangladesh into orbit around the earth.

After a few days of flirting with the magic limit of 3%, the important American ten-year rate on Tuesday rounded this cape for the first time in four years. 'Such a round number is very important psychologically.'

The handling of the extradition request for Guus Kouwenhoven (75) has been postponed again. The Dutchman, according to his lawyer, is in a South African hospital because of a serious fracture, the newspaper Business Day reports.

Tess, NASA's new space telescope, has successfully shot into space. With this the search for new planets can be continued. The launch that took place around 00.50 hours Dutch time went smoothly, reports the American space agency.

The American space company SpaceX has postponed the launch of the Falcon 9 rocket with the new NASA space telescope Tess. The launch would take place in the night from Monday to Tuesday from Cape Canaveral, but has now been postponed by at least 48 hours. Reason for the postponement are problems with the navigation system.

She will not find extraterrestrial life. But Tess, a new space telescope, can bring us a step closer to an answer to the question: is there somewhere else in the universe a planet where life might be possible. The American explorer is launched in the night from Monday to Tuesday (Dutch time). The launch is scheduled for 00.32 hours Dutch time.

Thieves have stolen the tooth of a megalodon in Australia, a huge shark species that died about 1.6 million years ago. The fossil disappeared from a national park, reports Australian media.

Cape Town expects the dreaded 'Dag Zero' to take longer. If rainfall does not occur, there will probably no longer be water from the tap in the metropolis on 27 August. Inhabitants must then report to distribution points to get water rations.

It is the hottest winter ever measured at the North Pole and scientists are therefore very concerned about it. The experts have never seen anything like this. 'This situation is just crazy.'

The new South African president Cyril Ramaphosa has defended expropriation of land from white farmers in favor of black residents Tuesday in parliament. He wants to allow expropriation without compensation in case of emergency. The allocation of land to the black population must continue but must be done cautiously.

A day after his election, the new president of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, promised a new beginning for the country. He especially wants to fight against corruption in the public sector, he said in his first State of the Union Friday night.

South African president Jacob Zuma resigns. His party, the ANC (African National Congress), had asked him to resign.

South African president Jacob Zuma does not find it fair that his party, the ANC (African National Congress), asks him to leave quickly without saying why. Zuma states in an interview with broadcaster SABC that he has done nothing wrong and that no one has told him why he has to leave.

The South African government party ANC will support a no-confidence vote against Jacob Zuma- the president of the country- on Thursday if it has not already resigned. A party spokesman said he hoped that a new president could be appointed on Thursday or Friday.