Missions

Mission Control’s flight controllers confer during the tense final 24 hours of the Apollo 13 mission. Credit: NASA

Apollo 13 How Mission Control brought the astronauts safely home

The Apollo 13 following their safe landing back on Earth. Credit: NASA

Apollo 13 The story behind NASA's rescue mission

US president Richard Nixon pictured with the Apollo 13 astronauts, following their safe return to Earth. Credit: NASA

Radio Astronomy Podcast Apollo 13: 50 years on

NASA has released the latest ’selfie’ captured by its Curiosity rover, which is currently exploring Mars searching for clues that could reveal the Red Planet’s geological history. Credit NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Eye On The Sky NASA's Mars Curiosity rover captures a new selfie

The view from Space on Virgin Galactic's first spaceflight. Credit: Virgin Galactic

Interview Virgin Galactic pilot David Mackay on suborbital flights

Soviet Space Graphics

Gallery 10 iconic Soviet space posters of the Cold War era

An artist’s impression of what each of the the TRAPPIST-1 planets might look like, based on available data about their sizes, masses and orbital distances. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Seeking out new worlds: a guide to the latest exoplanet-hunting missions

Launch of Apollo 4 atop the first Saturn 5 Moon rocket. Credit: NASA

The history of the Saturn V rocket

Alexei Leonov pictured during the Voskhod 2 mission that saw him become the first person to perform a spacewalk. Credit: Getty Images / SVF2 / Contributor

The story of Alexei Leonov, the first person to spacewalk

The European-designed Orion spacecraft (left) will take ESA astronauts to NASA’s Lunar Gateway and beyond. Credit: NASA

The biggest European Space Agency missions of the coming decade

ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano during a spacewalk outside the International Space Station, 25 January 2020. Credit:NASA

What are the biggest dangers on the International Space Station?

NASA's NEXT-C, a next-generation solar electric propulsion system, is scheduled for in-space testing in 2021. Credit: NASA/Rami Daud/Alcyon Technical Services

Electric propulsion: the future of spaceflight?

The European Space Agency's JUICE mission

Radio Astronomy Podcast Europe in space: the next decade

Kuiper Belt Object Arrokoth. Credit: ASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

New Horizons flyby reveals critical clues about planetary formation

A Soyuz rocket lifts off from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazahkstan, 18 October 2003. Credit: ESA-S. Corvaja 2003

The history of the Soyuz rocket