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A picture of the Soyuz spacecraft approaching the ISS

Christina Koch snapped this majestic picture of Soyuz 61 from the ISS

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

After years of sexism in space we urgently need more female astronauts

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

Cheer the first women-only spacewalk, but equality is still far away

19 March 2019

The first women-only spacewalk is a cause for celebration, but we are still a long way from achieving equality in our space programmes

Cosmic couture: The urgent quest to redesign the spacesuit

3 January 2018

Astronauts venture into space wearing 35-year-old, sweat-stained relics. The $200 million, high-tech replacement togs are anything but down to Earth

A group of people, two in space suits, on a parabolic flight

Space changes how your brain thinks and it starts right away

27 October 2017

Just a few minutes of microgravity is enough to change your brain. This suggests space tourists and long-haul astronauts may need to take precautions to think straight