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Nearly 50 years ago, the crew of Apollo 13 raced the clock to return home safely. Here’s how to replicate one of their more ingenious solutions to a crisis.

Halley’s Comet, innocuous as it is today, has historically inspired many key invasions.

Stargazing can be subject to the weather. Here at the National Space Centre we bypassed the cloudy UK skies by using a telescope over 10 000 miles away!

Three reasons why artificial intelligence is key to space exploration.

In the weightlessness of space, sloshing liquids can be a big problem!

SpaceX, NASA, and China are all making separate plans to return humans to the Moon. Who’s the most likely?

A tribute to female astronauts and cosmonauts, who have pushed the boundaries of human achievement

Six career lessons from the Hidden Figures film, as shared by Dr Kierann Shah of the National Space Academy.

On 22 February 2017 NASA revealed the largest collection of habitable-zone planets around a single star.

The Mercury 13 were an amazing group of ‘hidden figures’ in the early days of the Space Race.