Space

50 beautiful photos of the Moon landing missions from the Project Apollo Archives All images © NASA/Flickr/Project Apollo Archives

Project Apollo Archives 50 beautiful pictures of the Moon

Is space a perfect vacuum? © Getty Images

Is space a perfect vacuum?

Frank Joseph Malina, a co-founder of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, gives scale to an early model of the WAC Corporal research rocket. The associated steelwork is the lower section of the vertical launch tower. © Universal Images Group / Getty Images Plus

Nazis, magic and McCarthyism The dark history of early American space exploration

SpaceX Starlink: The controversial satellite constellation © SpaceX/Flickr

SpaceX Starlink The controversial satellite constellation

Dark energy is hiding in our Universe - here's how we'll find it © NASA

Dark energy is hiding in our Universe – here’s how we’ll find it

Is it true that NASA smaller everything before it is sent into space? © NASA

Is it true that NASA smells everything before it is sent into space?

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A message to ET 47 images from the Voyager Golden Record

Seeing blue © Getty Images

Project Blue: the hunt for Earth’s sister

Could we reuse any ISS modules for a Mars mission? © NASA

Could we reuse any ISS modules for a Mars mission?

The formation of the Moon brought water to Earth © Getty Images

The formation of the Moon brought water to Earth

Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington (1882-1944) the English astronomer, whose work has done much to establish Albert Einstein's theory of relativity. (Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

Great scientists Arthur Eddington - the champion of relativity

‘Oumuamua, the bizarre object hurtling through our Solar System, joined a select group of cosmic enigmas that have astronomers scratching their heads… © Magic Torch

The nine most mysterious objects in the Universe

Professor Stephen Hawking, British theoretical physicist. Photographed at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge © Eleanor Bentall/Corbis via Getty Images

Quiz Can you solve these deviously difficult Stephen Hawking-inspired questions?

Cleanroom workers take in the James Webb Space Telescope mirrors on 4 May 2016 © NASA/Chris Gunn

10 future space missions to look forward to