November 2018
How many people does it take to colonise an exoplanet?
... be unlike anything ever attempted in human history. While faster-than-light ‘warp drives’ are a popular staple of science fiction and allow protagonists to flit from star system to star system in the time it takes for a commercial break...
November 2019
Cosmo’s adventures in animated edutainment
...may share similarities with Mark Watney in Andy Weir’s science fiction novel and movie, but Cosmo’s story and mission hold...Studio drives the craft behind Cosmo’s animated storytelling, rocket science is provided by the education team at the Space ...
January 2021
Time to change our relationship with space?
...Excursion Module (LEM), and of TV shows and science fiction novels that found their niche against this setting.... condemned to operate in an artificial environment. No matter what science fiction might tease you with, there is not one square kilometre ...
May 2018
PLATO the habitable zone explorer
...out there in the cosmos has long been a staple of science fiction. It should come as no surprise then that these extra-solar... Warwick in the UK and leads the PLATO mission’s Science Management Office. His research focuses on the discovery of ...
July 2019
Settling the final frontier
... beyond Earth to establish permanent colonies in space. The ‘Final Frontier’, used to describe space, became a staple of science fiction with the introduction of Star Trek in 1966. In relation to space settlement, it applies exquisitely. As the last...
February 2016
Defending Earth against cosmic hazards
...Sir Arthur Clarke was fond of quoting his fellow science fiction writer Larry Niven and he often cited Niven’s famous...of what might be done to address cosmic hazards. Clearly more science and investigation is needed - but we are not ostriches that ...
