Goonhilly: to infinity and beyond

HUMANITY HAS CHANGED AN AWFUL LOT IN THE PAST 58 YEARS. THE MOON? NOT SO MUCH. It was in 1968 that astronauts first drew near the moon, and it will be early this year, if all goes as planned, that a c

An unusual spacecraft reached orbit in November 2025, one that might herald the dawn of a new era. Called Starcloud-1, it was the size of a small fridge and carried an advanced NVIDIA chip designed to

The future of Greenland has dominated the headlines in recent weeks, but increasingly the real action, both commercially and militarily, is taking place hundreds, even hundreds of thousands of miles a

The interstellar comet or spacecraft, 3I/Atlas (FT465:27) excited the world of ufology in 2025. Despite Avi Loeb’s best efforts, most experts regarded it as an unusual object but not a 33-billion-ton

A HUNDRED YEARS ago on 26 January 1926, in an attic room in London’s Soho (more famous for ladies of the night than technological breakthroughs), a Scottish engineer gave the first public display of p

Andy Saunders has devoted years to restoring historic NASA space images. Steve Fairclough spoke to him about his new book on the Mercury and Gemini missions