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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

Great writing widens its readers’ perceptions. It allows us insight into ways of existence beyond our experience, and in doing so, it alters our understanding of the human condition. That’s exactly wh

Before I can properly say hello to Maggie Aderin, she wants to apologise: the space scientist is about to take delivery of a new shed, so our interview might be interrupted. In the end we are not dist

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Chariots of the Gods (see pp28-35) came out when I was a young teenager, and like many others I was impressed by Erich von Däniken’s bestseller. It popularised the idea of ancient aliens for a mass au