Voyage to the stars

The two Voyager spacecraft left on their eternal journey through the solar system to the stars fifty years ago, but may still survive, in vestigial form, five billion years from now.

Rogue rocket to the moon

A discarded SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will crash into the dark side of the moon in a few weeks time, adding to the handful of man-made machines on its surface.

A new generation of private space stations

Commercial launch vehicles have begun to dominate operations to take payloads into orbit, and now private space stations are set to take to the skies.

The future archaeology of space exploration

In a conversation recorded for a new series of podcasts, Alice Gorman discusses the past and future of space exploration, and how it might be regarded by those still living on Earth.