The first crewed mission to the moon in over 50 years will carry NASA Mission Specialist Christina Koch. Ahead of lift off from Florida, she talks about the excitement of space travel

All being well, after many months of delays, NASA’s second giant white-and-orange SLS rocket will blast off from Kennedy Space Center on the Florida coast, sending a crew of four astronauts on the Art

What is the point of sending humans to the Moon, when we could carry out the same lunar science but with rovers and robots instead? Why risk lives? Following Artemis I’s successful dry run in 2022, NA

It’s an exciting time to be a space fan! If Artemis II launches in March (having been pushed back from a February launch due to fuelling issues), humans will be going back to the Moon for the first ti

From stargazing as a child to presenting the iconic The Sky At Night , Dame Maggie Aderin, 57, tells us how she beat the odds to become a space scientist, and why life beyond Earth matters to all of us

The space scientist Maggie Aderin explains the importance of grand ambitions