Cleaning a space toilet while on work experience was Claire Parfitt's first introduction to a career away from Earth's orbit.

But there can be some major environmental consequences when things don't go to plan. Science correspondent Pallab Ghosh explains why the explosion is a setback for space exploration. Humanity’s ...

Of the 24 Nasa astronauts who travelled to the Moon in the Apollo missions of the 1960s and 1970s, just five remain. There was giddy euphoria at the Kennedy Space Center after the launch, writes the ...