Chang’e 6journeys to the lunar far side

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

The race is on to extract helium-3 from the lunar surface —and Interlune is first at the launchpad, pursuing a resource that could power industries for decades

Astronomers love a challenge. They place their observatories on the highest mountains, in the driest deserts, on the coldest ice shelves, beneath the deepest oceans, in orbit around Earth and the Sun,

FROM JAPAN TO THE WORLD, FROM THE WORLD TO SPACE: A SAKE BREWERY DEDICATED TO QUALITY AND JOY.

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

Long ignored by scientists, cosmic dust is becoming an increasingly important field of study