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‘The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, it seems like an awful waste of space,’ wrote the American astronomer and author Carl Sagan in his book, Contact. Ever since humans first huddled

Astronaut Jim Lovell died this month, aged 97, one of the last of the original pioneers of space exploration. He missed out on Nasa’s early Mercury missions but was selected for the Gemini programme,

Your dusty, distant destination awaits, with unique geology that reveals billions of years of cosmic collisions

Using original photographs from the golden era of space travel, a new book unveils NASA’s thrilling first spaceflights

For Sarah, it was a night that would go down in history – for more reasons than one

Between their rivalries and collaborations, how have the world’s top national space agencies contributed to our knowledge of the cosmos?