Space & Missions
Space Travel
1,079 articles in this category.
Space & Missions
Design competition winner imagines 2,400 people governing themselves across 400-year space voyage
Space & Missions
Four private astronauts complete Earth's first true polar orbit
Space & Missions
Georgian choir song reaches a light-day from Earth aboard Voyager
Space & Missions
Man picked for space in 1961 finally flew at 90 after becoming a sculptor
Space & Missions
US Air Force once planned to detonate a nuclear bomb on the Moon as Cold War show of force
Space & Missions
A laser sail could reach our nearest star in decades, not millennia
Space & Missions
The nearest star system sits 4.2 light-years away—a distance today’s spacecraft…
Space & Missions
Four astronauts just went farther from Earth than any human in history
Space & Missions
In 1980 NASA had to choose between sending Voyager 1 past Titan or keeping it on a…
Space & Missions
On Mars, a dust storm in 2018 grew large enough to cover the entire planet…
Space & Missions
At about 19 kilometres up the air pressure falls low enough that water boils at…
Space & Missions
On a February day in 1984 an astronaut did what no human had dared, with no safety…
Space & Missions
The first woman to fly in space was not a test pilot or a scientist but a young…
Space & Missions
In microgravity, the human spine lengthens by as much as five centimetres, and…
Space & Missions