15 January 2020
The first US woman to spacewalk flew on three shuttle missions and says nothing beats space flight – but her proudest achievement is helping to repair the Hubble Space Telescope
15 November 2019
Spending time in microgravity can reverse the flow of a person’s blood and lead to clots, as seen in astronauts who spent months on the International Space Station
26 September 2019
Astronaut Christina Koch snapped this majestic picture of a Soyuz rocket approaching the ISS yesterday, tweeting that her best friend Jessica Meir was inside
24 July 2019
Getting more women into space is essential if we're ever to run longer missions or even set up colonies off-planet. To do so we need a better understanding of how human bodies will cope in outer space
8 July 2019
Unlike the Apollo missions, the new era of moon exploration might be about mining, tourism or art. The reason we pick to return will define the moon's future
8 July 2019
Before anyone had been to space, NASA simulated everything that could go possibly wrong – efforts that averted catastrophe as the Apollo 11 crew were about to land
11 April 2019
Astronaut twin brothers Scott and Mark Kelly took part in a unique space travel experiment and it turns out that space changes your urine but not your faeces
6 March 2019
For nearly a decade the US has relied on Russia to get its astronauts into space. With the test of SpaceX's crew capsule, it looks set to bring launches home again soon
31 October 2018
Creating The First, a gritty new TV space epic about the complexities of getting a crew to Mars, was an enormously detailed – and soul-searching – job
3 October 2018
Talk of sabotage on the International Space Station has exposed cracks in the US-Russia space relationship that could see NASA unable to fly astronauts into orbit
