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The elevator pitch made this trip sound very glamorous, but it’s nearing 43ºC and I’ve been stooping around in the desert for over an hour, eyes fixed on the arid earth. We’re in the Turkana Basin in

From stargazing as a child to presenting the iconic The Sky At Night , Dame Maggie Aderin, 57, tells us how she beat the odds to become a space scientist, and why life beyond Earth matters to all of us

DID YOU KNOW? JWST’s primary mirror weighs 705 kilograms ...

So you thought the Universe was a place of peace and calm? Think again. Yes, the night sky looks the same as centuries ago – a trustworthy and unchanging backdrop to daily life that helps to ease your

Scientifically speaking, there is no such thing as ‘touching’ something. When objects with mass – any objects with mass – touch each other, they aren’t physically in contact at all. There are two reas