Space

If you could drive a car upwards at 60mph, how long would it take to get to the Moon? © Getty Images

If you could drive a car upwards at 60mph, how long would it take to get to the Moon?

JSC2011-E-067645 (8 July 2011) --- The space shuttle Atlantis launches for the STS-135 mission to the International Space Station in the final mission of the Space Shuttle Program at NASA?s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Liftoff was at 11:29 a.m. (EDT) on July 8, 2011. Onboard are NASA astronauts Chris Ferguson, STS-135 commander; Doug Hurley, pilot; Sandy Magnus and Rex Walheim, both mission specialists. Photo credit: NASA Photo/Houston Chronicle, Smiley N. Pool

Final farewells Poignant last pictures from our most inspirational space missions

Getty © If nothing can escape from a singularity, how did the Universe manage it?

If nothing can escape from a singularity, how did the Universe manage it?

The hunt for the oldest galaxies in the Universe © NASA/Hubble Space Telescope

Cosmology The hunt for the oldest galaxies in the Universe

Small, cool stars may be the best place to look for ET © NASA

Small, cool stars may be the best place to look for ET

The violent past of Neptune's newest moon © ESA/Hubble, NASA, L. Calçada

Hippocamp, Neptune’s newest moon, had a violent past

Signs of ancient flowing water found on Mars © NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Mars Express Signs of ancient flowing water found on Mars

What would happen if there were no Moon? © iStock

What would happen if there were no Moon?

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Birth of a black hole witnessed for first time

If all the asteroids in the asteroid belt had coalesced to form a planet, what size would it have been? © Getty

If all the asteroids in the asteroid belt had coalesced to form a planet, what size would it have been?

How tall is the Universe? © Getty

How tall is the Universe?

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Farout "We discovered the most distant object ever observed in our Solar System"

Inside China's plans to build a lunar base © Chinese National Space Administration

Space Race Inside China’s plans to build a lunar base

Why the first plant grown on the Moon is a significant milestone in space exploration © CHONGQING UNIVERSITY HANDOUT/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock

Why the first plant grown on the Moon is a significant milestone in space exploration