Space

What would alien life actually look like? © Getty Images

What would alien life actually look like?

Cooking up alien atmospheres © Getty Images

How synthetic atmospheres could help us hunt for alien life

Mission into the Sun © Andy Potts

How the Parker Solar Probe will ‘touch the Sun’

Who will be next to land on the Moon? © ESA

Who will be next to land on the Moon?

Why we need to go back to the Moon © NASA

The Apollo programme Why we need to go back to the Moon

'Oumuamua: Why did we think it was aliens? © Getty Images

Reality Check Why did we think 'Oumuamua was an alien probe?

How 22kg of lunar rocks delivered by Apollo 11 changed our understanding of how the Moon formed (Apollo 11 brought back the first samples from the Moon – seen here arriving at the Lunar Receiving Lab in Houston, Texas © Getty Images)

Apollo 11 How 22kg of lunar rocks changed our understanding of how the Moon formed

24 July 1969 Half an hour after ‘landing’, the Apollo 11 crew, dressed in isolation suits, are met and extracted by a navy diver before being airlifted to the USS Hornet (above). © NASA/JSC

Apollo 11 16.50 GMT, 24 July 1969: Splashdown

In a vacuum chamber at the Lunar Receiving Laboratory in Houston, 5.5kg of rocks from the Moon are carefully unloaded for analysis © NASA/JSC

Is it true that Apollo Moon rock samples went missing?

In pictures: Apollo 11 astronauts' exploits on the Moon © NASA/JPL

In pictures Apollo 11 astronauts' exploits on the Moon

On air, on the Moon: BBC presenters recall the night of the Moon landing © BBC

On air, on the Moon BBC presenters recall the night of the Moon landing

Who Was Tecwyn Roberts, NASA’s Unknown Welsh Hero? © NASA

History Extra Who was Tecwyn Roberts, NASA’s unknown Welsh hero?

Apollo 11 Space Mission: Seconds from disaster (Tensions ran high in mission control during the moments before Eagle landed on the Moon. From left capcom Charlie Duke, back-up commander Jim Lovell and back-up lunar module pilot Fred Haise © NASA/JPL)

Apollo 11 Space Mission Seconds from disaster

NASA to send a drone to explore Saturn's biggest moon © NASA

NASA to send a drone to explore Saturn’s biggest moon

Saturn V: Inside the rocket that launched Apollo 11 to the Moon © Getty Images

Saturn V Inside the rocket that launched Apollo 11 to the Moon