Christopher Nolan and Sir David Attenborough recently received the prestigious Hawking Medal for Science Communication.

Here’s a look at human spaceflight programs in the United States and around the world. Facts The United States ended its crewed space shuttle program with the launch of Atlantis on July 8, 2011, and ...

The Hawking Medal has been previously awarded to a remarkable array of individuals from various fields, including Jane Goodall , Hans Zi ...

This week we’re looking at the history of space travel, including the 60th anniversary of the first ever space-walk by Russian cosmonaut Alexei Leonov.

While the space race of the 1960s was a contest between two rival superpowers, today it is being fought by private space ...

Space is one of the most dangerous frontiers, yet astronauts have repeatedly defied death through skill, technology, and ...

On 18 March 1965, cosmonaut Alexei Leonov became the first person to spacewalk, tethered to the spaceship by a 5m “umbilical cord”. Show more On 18 March 1965, cosmonaut Alexei Leonov became ...

An exhibition showcasing one of the UK’s largest private collections of space artefacts will open at Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum on Saturday 14 June 2025.

Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov was the pilot of the Voskhod 2 mission. Image courtesy: European Space Agency His historic spacewalk lasted 10 minutes. However, the mission was not without challenges.

Today marks the anniversary of the historic and iconic first spacewalk. On March 18, 1965, Russian cosmonaut Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov walked in a spacewalk with its own risks. He achieved the ...

March 18 has seen its fair share of significant events that have shaped the world in numerous ways.One of the most noteworthy events in history on March ...