Goonhilly: to infinity and beyond

The world’s biggest digital camera telescope has started ...

Flight’s glamorous beginnings

I used to describe myself as ‘chronically late’. Having grown up in Uruguay, this was simply the norm. Timings there were as much a suggestion as red traffic lights were: open to personal interpretati

Ten years ago, Pluto emerged from the gloom at the Solar System’s ragged edge – and a new world came in from the cold. Five billion kilometres (3 billion miles) from Earth, on 14 July 2015, NASA’s pia

What communications equipment do you really need to stay safe and keep in touch? Alan Denham explores options for every budget and cruising ambition

On 29 July 2021, more than four centuries after the invention of the telescope, the man who initiated a revolution in astronomy was finally honoured with a life-sized bronze statue. In the herb garden