Youngest man on the moon

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

This October marks 50 years since a heavily shielded spacecraft, the Soviet Union’s Venera 9, parachuted into the atmosphere of Venus. Then, having landed, it did something extraordinary: it beamed ba

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,

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

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

Meet the astronaut breaking new frontiers in space.