30 October 2019
30 years ago, astrophysicists worried that a chain reaction of collisions between bits of space debris would create a cloud of deadly shrapnel through which no spacecraft could pass
19 July 2019
New Scientist was opposed to the Apollo missions from the start, and complained for decades that the money to send people into space was being wasted. Why were we so grumpy and pessimistic about putting a man on the moon?
1 May 2019
50 years ago, the Apollo missions were gearing up to put a human on the moon – and NASA was in a spin about how best to get them safely home again
20 June 2018
The Space Launch System (SLS) will be the most powerful rocket ever built. But a rocket like this needs more than brawn – it needs brains, too, and a lot of testing
7 March 2018
NASA’s Juno spacecraft took this image on 7 February from a spot more than 8000 kilometres above Jupiter’s northern cloud tops
7 February 2018
The arrays are due to open for real in November to power a two-year mission to probe the guts of Mars and reveal how rocky planets' core, mantle and crust form
18 August 2017
Apollo 15 astronaut Al Worden flew to the moon and holds two Guinness world records. Now you can have lunch with him in our exclusive competition
