20 greatest women in space

I had one answer, every time: Jocelyn Bell Burnell. Whenever Amaury Triaud, my PhD supervisor, asked for speaker suggestions for our weekly seminars, hers was the name I suggested. Again and again. He

‘The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, it seems like an awful waste of space,’ wrote the American astronomer and author Carl Sagan in his book, Contact. Ever since humans first huddled

Between their rivalries and collaborations, how have the world’s top national space agencies contributed to our knowledge of the cosmos?

In 1992, Giovanna Amati became the last woman to enter a Grand Prix, 34 years after Maria Teresa de Filippis. In total, she was the fifth woman to enter the F1 World Championship after De Filippis, Le

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Isn’t it amazing that astronomy – humanity’s oldest science – continues to generate such a delightful amount of new knowledge? Seeing as we’ve been studying the motion of the stars for a good long whi