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A few weeks ago, a booming sound rumbled throughout the lush jungles of French Guiana as Ariane V took off for its penultimate launch,...

When Voyager 2 whizzed past Uranus in January 1986, it encountered a system tilted by 97.7 degrees, as if lying on its side. Such a...

‘Five minutes to go. You’re still OK, Harper?’ said a man through the intercom. Her voice was too dry to reply, so she gave a thumbs up...

This is the beginning of a novel. Chapter 1 Near Sarakka Crater, on Callisto Freyja’s pickaxe hit on the rock-solid ice hard. It made a...

‘Life in space is aberrant, an unnatural situation. We shouldn’t be here,’ the man said, staring at the bedroom ceiling. ‘Where should we...

This is the beginning of a short story. Ice particles lifted in the tenuous atmosphere as his boot stepped onto the frozen ground. The...

In May last year, I shared with you (here) my initial thoughts on the 782-page Planetary Decadal Survey published by the US National...

Last week, I gave a talk at a local astronomy club on the topic of my latest book: the evolution of space mission cameras and instruments...

Remarkable, don’t you think, that we have made it through another year in the amazing story of humanity, so terrific, so tremendous, but...

Just a few weeks ago, on the 16th of November to be precise, I woke up at 5h45 in the morning (UK time) and went to my living room in my...

It seems that not a month goes by without some fantastic images being returned from an imaging instrument somewhere in space. Of all the...

How lucky we are to live during the era of the James Webb Space Telescope! Webb has merely begun its decades-long mission (hopefully, it...

When considering life in outer space, we have been bathed – dare I say conditioned - for over a century now with stories that mainly...

I was recently commissioned to write an article on the European space tech industry. Through my research into this topic, I discovered a...

As a person who is passionate about space as well as prehistory, and having recently moved near Avebury Stone Circle, I had to experience...

As you read these lines, something exciting is happening; and it might change our perception of life in our Universe - no less! Indeed,...

So, here it is finally! The day planetary science nerds like yours truly have been waiting for so long occurred on the 19th of April. On...

This is the beginning of a short story. Chapter 1 Daniel was one of the first people to have a glimpse of the Great Collapse;...

As I was guiding her eyes at the bright yellow light in the night sky, she exclaimed in surprise, “That’s Jupiter?” A grin appeared...

As we’ve all watched in horror the advent of war in Ukraine and been deeply moved by the scale of the human tragedy unfolding, another...