From stargazing as a child to presenting the iconic The Sky At Night , Dame Maggie Aderin, 57, tells us how she beat the odds to become a space scientist, and why life beyond Earth matters to all of us

Amazing answers to your curious questions

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The first crewed mission to the moon in over 50 years will carry NASA Mission Specialist Christina Koch. Ahead of lift off from Florida, she talks about the excitement of space travel

It’s an exciting time to be a space fan! If Artemis II launches in March (having been pushed back from a February launch due to fuelling issues), humans will be going back to the Moon for the first ti

Since JWST’s launch four years ago, some mind-blowing observations have been made by this internationally operated, state-of-the-art, space-based super-telescope