The universe gets a little weirder, and more dangerous, every time we study it. Understanding space weather, which can mess with our communications systems, will take strategic planning to monitor.

Hank fills us in on the four exploratory missions to space that he is most excited about - New Horizons is going to Pluto and the Kuiper belt; Juno is on it's way to Jupiter; Dawn is exploring two large asteroids; Rosetta will land on a...

The ESA Hipparcos team worked for 20 years on the project, then had to watch as the mission ALMOST failed! But somehow, they turned it around, and today, this little-known mission has totally transformed what we know about space.

The little-known story behind the Zambian Space Program.

We analyse Moon Sniper/SLIM, Japan's recent successful mission to the Moon.

Everything you could want to know about Jupiter.

The success of the Chandrayaan-3 mission raises even more questions about our already mysterious Moon.

Why shouldn't we throw garbage into the sun? Find out in this return of our series 'Astrum Answers'.

Scientists hoped the first mission to Mars would reveal life on the red planet. What did the mission find? Physics - Universe - Learning Points. Percival Lowell believed there were canals and cities on Mars. In 1965, NASA probe Mariner 4...

A conversation with Sylvain Costes, the Project Manager for GeneLab, a space biology database run out of NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley.

What’s in a name? Whether you call it a planet or an asteroid, missions that explore small worlds are always exciting.

A great era of exploration of the icy moons is about to begin. Athena Coustenis of the Paris Observatory talks about missions to the icy moons of the outer solar system and international collaborations with NASA and ESA.

Japan is set to launch a robotic mission to the Martian system in 2024. <br/>

Hollywood often paints a romanticized vision of space travel, but living in a gravity-free environment has dirty downsides. It takes a lot of extra work for an astronaut to tend to their personal hygiene in space. Sometimes, they're even...

A Japanese space probe has reached its destination after travelling through space for three years. The Hayabusa 2 spacecraft blasted off in December 2014, Reuters reports. This week it arrived at its destination, Asteroid Ryugu, some 3...

NASA has announced that it is building a new satellite dish as part of the Deep Space Network that would be able to communicate with far away robotic spacecrafts. <br/>

Apollo 11 was the spacecraft that successfully delivered Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the moon in 1969. Learn about the structure of the spaceship and details of the mission.

It has been an extraordinary year in Mars exploration, with new results and new spacecraft changing our view of the red planet.





The highlight for many was the touchdown of NASA's...

This edition of Space comes from the coast of northern Norway, where we’ve come to the Andøya Space Centre to meet scientists working on a new satellite called Aeolus, which is measuring...

Viewer Stephen Panev would like to know if we are ever going to see a European astronaut on the Moon.



​​Euronews put that question to Jennifer Ngo-Anh, head of International Space Station Science at the European...

Michael Kinser from the United States wants to know how astronauts are preparing to deal with long periods in weightlessness, and high radiation, on journeys to places like Mars. We put the question to ESA's Italian...

‘Hidden Figures’ tells the story of three brilliant African-American women who worked at NASA and were the brains behind the flight of the first American astronaut John Glenn into orbit.



The visionary trio...

Food for astronauts on board the International Space Station is definitely not attractive, no matter the format in which it is consumed.



Every food ration must insure the crew members get the...

Which kind of space suit will an astronaut wear on Mars? In order to prepare for a future human mission on the red planet scientists are holding tests in order to figure out how to live in near-isolation.



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