Space exploration

Ever since Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the Moon, space exploration has captivated the minds of both the scientific world and the general public. To this day there have been hundreds of manned space flights from all around the globe and even more probes sent to explore our Solar System. With the dawn of private space flight through companies such as SpaceX and the continued desire to find another inhabitable planet, the incentive to probe the edges of the Solar System only grows.

An artist’s impression of the Parker Solar Probe spacecraft approaching the Sun © Steve Gribben/Johns Hopkins APL/Nasa/PA

Parker Solar Probe discovers ‘strange’ and ‘unexpected’ flips in Sun’s magnetic field

Really, really big books about space © Getty Images

8 really, really big books about space

Engineer locates debris from India’s crashed Moon lander in NASA images © AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi, File

Engineer locates debris from India’s crashed Moon lander in NASA images

UK invests £1.87 billion in European Space Agency © Getty Images

UK invests £1.87 billion in European Space Agency

NASA 'pallet lander concept' could be coming to a Moon near you soon © NASA/PA

NASA ‘pallet lander concept’ could be coming to a Moon near you soon

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

Race to the Moon Inside China's plans to build a lunar base

China demonstrates Mars lander ahead of 2020 mission © AP Photo/Andy Wong

China Mars lander unveiled ahead of 2020 mission

Ryugu © JAXA via AP

Hayabusa2 Japanese space probe starts year-long journey home from asteroid

New Horizons returns sharp images of Ultima Thule © NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

Ultima Thule Minor planet given official name 'Arrokoth'

One third of British people think we will have to leave Earth eventually © Ben Birchall/PA

One third of British people think we will have to leave Earth eventually

Space travel affects heart cells, but only temporarily © NASA/PA

Space travel affects heart cells, but only temporarily

Space exploration The unintended consequences of privatising space

Peter Ward

An artist’s concept of NASA’s Voyager spacecraft © NASA/PA

Voyager 2 sends back first signal from interstellar space

Why we need to go back to the Moon © NASA

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

New NASA spacesuit revealed in preparation for return to the Moon (Kristine Davis, a spacesuit engineer at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, wearing a ground prototype of NASA’s new Exploration Extravehicular Mobility Unit (xEMU), is seen during a demonstration of the suit, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019 at NASA Headquarters in Washington. The xEMU suit improves on the suits previous worn on the Moon during the Apollo era and those currently in use for spacewalks outside the International Space Station and will be worn by first woman and next man as they explore the Moon as part of the agency’s Artemis program © NASA/Joel Kowsky)

New NASA spacesuit revealed in preparation for return to the Moon