The culture shapers: space travel

Your dusty, distant destination awaits, with unique geology that reveals billions of years of cosmic collisions

Between their rivalries and collaborations, how have the world’s top national space agencies contributed to our knowledge of the cosmos?

For Sarah, it was a night that would go down in history – for more reasons than one

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

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

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