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Astronaut standing by flag on Moon (Credit: Nasa)
Space Station

The hunt for the trees sent to the Moon

By Richard Hollingham

Rocket launch through cloud (Credit: Alexyz3d/Getty Images)
Space
The British spaceports taking shape
By Peter Ray Allison
The robotic underwater vehicle Orpheus is venturing into uncharted areas of the deep ocean (Credit: Marine Imaging Technologies, LLC/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Inner Space
The spaceships exploring our oceans
By Isabelle Gerretsen
The mystery of what existed before the Big Bang has puzzled physicists since the theory was first proposed (Credit: Alamy)
Life's Big Questions
What existed before the Big Bang?
By Alastair Wilson
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Space
Can you hear the Northern Lights?
By Fiona Amery
A lab worker manipulates radium from behind a screen
Deep Civilisation
The atomic material that unlocked time
By Thomas Moynihan
As matter accelerates towards supermassive black holes, jets of superheated gas particles shoot outwards and can be seen by our most powerful telescopes (Credit: Nasa)
Space
How supermassive black holes got so big
By Patchen Barss
It's only recently in human history that we realised just how unpopulated the Universe is (Credit: Nasa/Toby Ord)
Deep Civilisation
The billionaires seeking salvation
By Richard Fisher
C/2020 F3 Neowise is not expected to return to Earth's part of the Solar System for another 6,800 years (Credit: Jeff Overs/BBC)
Solar System
The alien cloud around our Solar System
By Abigail Beall
Nasa's most recent rover to Mars, Perseverance – along with its pint-sized helicopter – could have carried some microbial hitchhikers along for the ride (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
Space
Have we sent life to other planets?
By Christopher Mason
An artist's impression of the alien object 'Oumuamua (Credit: Alamy)
The Great Beyond
The alien objects that visited our Sun
By Zaria Gorvett
Soviet space poster from 1965 (Credit: Unknown/Alamy)
Russian Right Stuff
How space inspired Soviet artists
By Stephen Dowling
Cosmism helped inspire some Soviet scientists to imagine whole communities in space (Credit: Found Image Holdings/Getty Images)
Russian Right Stuff
Russia's 'religion of the stars'
By Benjamin Ramm
Soviet space capsules under construction in 1961 (Credit: Sovfoto/Getty Images)
Russian Right Stuff
The USSR’s simple space-race solutions
By Richard Hollingham
Gagarin's iconic presence did not die with the fall of the Soviet Union (Credit: Yuri Kadobnov/AFP/Getty Images)
Russian Right Stuff
The soft power of Yuri Gagarin
By Stephen Dowling
Art of cosmonauts in space (Credit: Universal History Archive/Getty Images)
Russian Right Stuff
How the cosmonauts conquered space
By Richard Hollingham