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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

I found your recent article Are We Aliens? (June, p62) very interesting. I noticed it mentioned that samples from the Mars Sample Return mission would “give us further clues” about the panspermia theo

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

‘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

Following a trip in May to a US investment conference to meet with company bosses, James Harries, the manager of STS Global Trust, reported that, “as ever one cannot fail to be impressed by the sheer

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