Missions

Eileen Collins - the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle, pictured onboard Discovery during the STS-63 mission, 3 February 1995. Credit: NASA

How do astronauts write in space?

A view of Mars captured by the UAE Hope Probe

Hope probe’s global map of Mars

lunah map spacecraft nasa

How the LunaH-Map mission will map ice at the Moon’s south pole

A view of the Sun captured by the Solar Orbiter spacecraft during perihelion, the spacecraft's closest point to the Sun in its orbit. Credit: ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/EUI Team

Solar Orbiter See the spacecraft's brand new close-up images of our Sun

A view of Saturn captured by the Cassini spacecraft on 2 January 2010 from about 2.3 million km away. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

Solar System images have the power to transport us to other worlds

Space junk is the name given to spent satellites and other debris in orbit around Earth. Credit: janiecbros / Getty Images

What is space junk and why is it a big problem?

A replica ExoMars rover during a test drive around the Mars Terrain Simulator at ALTEC, Turin, Italy. Credit: ESA/Thales Alenia Space

Rosalind Franklin Rover launch suspended over war in Ukraine

Artist's impression showing NASA's Lunar Gateway and the Orion spacecraft at the Moon as part of the Artemis programme

How NASA’s Artemis programme will return humans to the Moon

Space law expert Chris Newman, Northumbria University

Radio Astronomy Podcast What happens if someone dies in space?

NASA's SOFIA flying observatory

How NASA’s SOFIA flying observatory views the Universe in infrared

Artist's impression of the NASA Capstone mission at the Moon

9 missions heading to the Moon in 2022

International space station in earth orbit

How the ISS is being retired, and what will happen to it

NASA’s Space Launch System with the Orion spacecraft atop, at Launch Complex 39B, Kennedy Space Center, in the early hours of 18 March 2022. Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky

NASA rolls out Artemis Space Launch System at Kennedy Space Center

Maggie Aderin-Pocock

Why go to Mars? Because it would be the trip of a lifetime

Beagle 2 lead scientist Colin Pillinger pictured with a model of Beagle 2 at the Lander Operations Planning Centre on 27 November 2003 in Milton Keynes, UK. Credit: Scott Barbour/Getty Images

What happened to Beagle 2?