Is hyperspace travel possible?

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

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

‘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

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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

Of the hundreds of thousands of asteroids in our solar system, it is all too feasible that one could strike Earth. If scientists discover this is likely to happen, what are our options for defending ourselves – and who will make the key decisions? Tomas Weber reports