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In 2026, a team of astronauts will float inside a glossy white cylinder orbiting hundreds of kilometres above Earth. But this won’t be the International Space Station (ISS). It’ll be Haven-1 – the wor

When you think of the UK space industry, you might struggle to think of anything beyond Colin Pillinger’s Beagle struggling to beam a signal back from Mars. However, the UK space industry is a signifi

‘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

I’M going to reveal something I might well regret, but here goes: I love Star Wars. Not sci-fi in general, but Star Wars specifically. And when I found out that I’d be the lucky custodian of a Polesta

A giant parachute built for Europe’s beleaguered ExoMars ...

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