Rocket seeds ready for launch!
Two kilograms of rocket (salad) seeds are on their way to the International Space Station (ISS) as part of British ESA astronaut Tim Peake’s six-month Principia mission.
Odysseus competition open to young UK scientists
Young scientists from the UK are invited to compete in Odysseus, an exciting competition exploring the mysteries and challenges of space.
First woman in space: image of the week
This week (16 June 2015) celebrated the anniversary of the first woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova, in 1963.
Our Galaxy’s Magnetic Field: image of the week
This Planck image shows the complicated link between the magnetic field of our galaxy and its interstellar dust.
50 Years of spacewalks: image of the week
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This week (3 June 2015) is the 50th anniversary of the first NASA spacewalk. Edward H. White II floated for more than 20 minutes in the microgravity of space on the Gemini IV mission in 1965. At the end of …
A year in space for Sentinel-1A: image of the week
An image over Russia’s Siberia region was released on the anniversary of Sentinel-1A’s orbit.
Plants in space: success at the Chelsea Flower Show
Last week, we celebrated the launch of Rocket Science; an educational project sending salad seeds to space and back. Give your local school the opportunity to grow these 'space seeds' in a national science experiment.
Into gardening? We're at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show!
We can't wait to exhibit at the RHS Chelsea Flower show next week and we want you to tell us which of the following plants you would take to space.
Happy Birthday Hubble!
The Hubble Space Telescope was launched 24th April 1990 and has beamed thousands of images back to Earth, unveiling many mysteries of astronomy.
How to 'Make That Call': #TalkToTim on the ISS
Tim Peake has recently issued the challenge to schools and other organisations to ‘Make That Call’ to him in space, using the amateur radio on board the ISS. But what is this amateur radio, and how does it work?