As a galactic archaeologist, my job is to reconstruct the past of our galaxy – and read the signs of its future.
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The strange journey of Ham the chimpanzee from a rainforest in Cameroon to the edge of space.
Women are in many ways ideal astronauts, but the world of space has been designed for men.
In the long lead-up to our ultimate flyby of Pluto, space science has reconfigured our notions of what it means to be a solar system, a planet, a world.
Sputnik was launched more than 50 years ago. Since then we have seen missions launched to Mercury, Mars and to all the planets within the solar system. We have sent a dozen men to the moon and many more…
