25 January 2023
Access to space is growing, with more than 70 nations now operating space programmes. We urgently need to update international rules, says chair of the UAE Space Agency Sarah Al Amiri
14 September 2022
Achieving a lunar outpost is important not as a means of escaping our home planet, but learning better ways to thrive on it
21 July 2022
On 24 July, China will launch the second of three modules to its space station, with the rocket taking off from Hainan Island, located southwest of Hong Kong, at around 2pm local time
2 March 2022
Spacesuits tend to muffle sounds, but hearing our footsteps may provide useful cues about our environment and reduce the risk of tripping
16 July 2021
Mae C Jemison was the first Black woman to go into space
22 September 2020
Perseverance is the first NASA mission to explicitly look for signs of ancient life. It will also test the first extraterrestrial helicopter and prepare for human exploration.
13 July 2020
So far we've found thousands of exoplanets, and this number is rising fast.
14 May 2020
Between 1960 and 1961, thirteen American women - all pilots - qualified as astronauts. The Mercury 13 passed the same physical tests as America’s first male astronauts, yet they never made it beyond Earth's atmosphere. Wally Funk was one of them.
29 April 2020
From vintage satellites to lunar rovers, space archaeologist Alice Gorman is teasing out a unique history of humanity from the objects we've dispatched from Earth
17 January 2020
The brains behind the first plant ever to germinate on the moon explains how the Chinese mission succeeded
