Missions

Remote observations have suggested that Ultima Thule has a lumpy shape, or could even be two bodies in orbit around each other. Image Credits: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI/Steve Gribben

Interview: Ramy El-Maarry, New Horizons scientist

An artist's illustration of New Horizons at Pluto. Credit: Image Credit: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

What did New Horizons discover at Pluto?

Voyager 2 has passed through the heliopause, into interstellar space. The bubble of particles and magnetism surrounding the Sun known as the heliosphere is stretched out behind the Sun as it moves through the Galaxy. Image Credit: NASA

Voyager 2 reaches interstellar space

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Interview: exoplanet-hunting with Kepler

An artist’s illustration of the InSight lander on Mars. The mission is designed to look for tectonic activity study how much heat is flowing through the planet. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

NASA’s InSight to study Mars interior

Artist's impression of the Kepler space telescope Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Wendy Stenzel

How the Kepler space telescope came to be

The launch of Apollo 9 from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in 1969.
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Interview Former NASA scientist David Baker

An artist's impression of the Kepler space telescope, an observatory that taught us for every star we see in the night sky, there is on average one planet orbiting it. Image Credit: NASA/Ames Research Center/W. Stenzel/D. Rutter

NASA retires Kepler space telescope

Artist's impression of the Dawn spacecraft studying Vesta and Ceres. Credit: NASA

NASA’s Dawn mission comes to an end

Waving for the camera on my third and final space walk. I enjoyed the challenge, but I was happy to have them done.

In pictures: astronaut Scott Kelly’s year in space

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Take Tim Peake’s astronaut tests

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Interview Former NASA historian on the history of space exploration

Director Rory Kennedy during one of the many expert interviews carried out for Above And Beyond, a new documentary looking at the history of NASA since the Apollo missions. Image Credit: Discovery Channel

Interview Filmmaker Rory Kennedy discusses her uncle's Moon landing legacy

An artist’s impression of BepiColombo approaching Mercury. Image Credit: ESA/ATG medialab; Mercury: NASA/JPL

Bepi Colombo: Mission to Mercury

The diversity of Pluto’s surface is visible in this shot, showing the various surfaces and landforms on the dwarf planet. This 350km wide image shows cratered terrain, mountains and a field of dark ridges that look like dunes.

New Horizons reveals latest Pluto images