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Planetary physicist Dr Sheila Kanani on why now is the time to spot shooting stars and a sunlit Saturn

The commander of the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission ...

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,

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

THOMAS W SCHALLER IS AN INTERNATIONALLY-ACCLAIMED WATERCOLOUR ARTIST based in New York. He is the winner of numerous awards, including from the Institute of Classical Art and Architecture, the America

It’s difficult to fully grasp the enormity and extremity of Jupiter. The planet – a striped behemoth of swirling gas with around 100 moons, one of which is larger than Mercury – dominates the Solar Sy