Space

After the International Space Station - what comes next? © NASA

After the International Space Station – what comes next?

View on a muddy Mars, with a wet atmosphere. © Getty Images

Mars may have enough oxygen to support subterranean life

What's the soonest life could have evolved after the Big Bang? © Getty Images

Who really discovered the heat from the Big Bang?

The Allende meteorite, a slice of which is seen here, contains nine minerals never seen on Earth, including panguite © NASA

Could there be materials on other planets that we don’t have on Earth?

What NASA's InSight will tell us about Mars - Bruce Banerdt © NASA/JPL-Caltech

What NASA’s InSight will tell us about Mars – Bruce Banerdt

Five things the ISS has done for us © NASA

Five things the ISS has done for us

Is it true that Venus has its own form of rainbow? © ESA/MPS

Is it true that Venus has its own form of rainbow?

Mission into the Sun © Andy Potts

How the Parker Solar Probe will ‘touch the Sun’

UK spaceport: the rocket revolution close to home © Jared and Dawn Haworth

UK spaceport: the rocket revolution close to home

Gravitational waves point to primordial black holes © Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library/Getty Images

What would happen if a very strong gravitational wave passed through us?

The thought experiment: What would happen if aliens contacted us? © Getty Images

The thought experiment: What would happen if aliens contacted us?

© University of Surrey

Net successfully snares space junk in practice run

Does the Sun make a sound? © Getty

Does the Sun make a sound?

How we'll leave Earth for good © dusk/folio art

How we’ll leave Earth for good