October 2025
What future for UK human spaceflight?
...’s Moonlight programme, officially announced in 2024, is a landmark initiative to create a satellite constellation orbiting the Moon for future comms and navigation services. Change began with national lobbying efforts and pivotal discussions in 2008...
November 2025
Searching for life beyond Earth
... of astrobiology. In this exclusive interview for ROOM by Steve Kelly she shares her insights on the latest discoveries, future technologies, and what it might mean to finally answer the question: are we alone? Your work has fundamentally...
20 July 2016
ESA open new laboratory in UK to test applications for future space missions
... Advanced Manufacturing Laboratory aimed at understanding the capabilities of 3D printing and other advanced manufacturing techniques for future space missions. Based along side other world-leading facilities at the Science and Technology Facilities...
09 July 2018
Plans for a future Mars rover to return soil samples to Earth
The European Space Agency (ESA) have teamed up with Airbus to design a new rover that will head to Mars and retrieve the first ever martian soil samples from the planet to be later brought back safely to Earth for analysis. The rover, which will be ...
23 November 2018
3D printed body parts being studied for future astronauts
... defining a development roadmap and timeline, with the aim that this group becomes a scientific working group in future, pushing progress on.” Bioprinters work essentially the same way as standard 3D printers, but instead of using plastics or metals...
25 November 2020
Solar astronomers "listening" to the Sun can now predict future sunspots
... to identify and track active regions emergent on the far side of the Sun has important implications for future space weather predictive capabilities,” said Dr. Carrie Black, Program Director at NSF. “GONG continues to be a valuable tool for...
