12 June 2020
New Horizon breaks record with first interstellar parallax experiment
...These photographs of Proxima Centauri and Wolf 359 – stars that are well-known to amateur astronomers and science fiction aficionados alike – employ the largest distance between viewpoints ever achieved in 180 years of stereoscopy!” If you've enjoyed...
18 January 2021
New study looks at how to harness energy from a black hole
... to support the needs of an advanced civilisation. Mining energy from black holes may sound like the stuff of science fiction, but it is in fact one of Einstein’s more fanciful-sounding predictions from his theory of General Relativity. Over the...
02 April 2025
Bold ideas and big questions in our Spring 2025 issue
... sparking debate thanks to its bold cover image: a pregnant astronaut drifting in microgravity. Far from a work of science fiction, the cover is a symbolic invitation to engage with one of the issue’s central topics – the scientific and ethical...
04 February 2018
Worlds Fantastic, Worlds Familiar: A Guided Tour of the Solar System
... on space and astronomy will probably not get much out of this one. The text, interspersed as it is with science fiction references and other popular story-telling devices, is well-written and should be accessible to those already interested...
29 March 2018
Mapping the Heavens
... were fuzzy blobs, there was no proof of exoplanets and the idea of landing a spacecraft on an asteroid was pure science fiction! According to its publicity, this book provides “a tour of the ‘greatest hits’ of cosmological discoveries - the ideas...
01 August 2019
Apollo’s Muse; the Moon in the age of photography
...an image of an Atlas launch. In between are early sketches of the Moon made through telescopes, film stills and science-fictional guesses at its surface characteristics, blurred TV images from 1969 and equally blurred artistic renderings. Readers may...
