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Solar Opposites review: Clever, silly and bound to be an instant hit

Solar Opposites review: Clever, silly and bound to be an instant hit

24 February 2021

From one of the creators of Rick and Morty, animation Solar Opposites explores how intelligent beings from another world would fare in a typical US neighbourhood with hilarious results


Moving to Mars – this show will help you become a real Martian

Moving to Mars – this show will help you become a real Martian

18 October 2019

From memorious clothing to wasteless habitats, the reality of living on Mars is brought home at London's Design Museum with genuine optimism


Ad Astra: Pirates and space monkeys can't save dull space psychodrama

Ad Astra: Pirates and space monkeys can't save dull space psychodrama

18 September 2019

Brad Pitt stars in thoughtful sci-fi Ad Astra, but even his strong performance can't plug the plot holes in this movie's melancholy heart


High Life’s sex and black holes sci-fi intrigues without satisfying

High Life’s sex and black holes sci-fi intrigues without satisfying

22 May 2019

High Life, a sci-fi tale of black holes, redemption and sex, intrigues while leaving big questions unanswered – like who does the disembodied hand belong to?


Prepare to jump to light speed: Inside the mission to go interstellar

Prepare to jump to light speed: Inside the mission to go interstellar

10 April 2019

Proxima Centauri is 4 light years away. Ambitious space mission Breakthrough Starshot is developing a way to push spacecraft there at a fifth of the speed of light


moon

Sorry, but NASA probably isn't sending astronauts to the moon in 2024

3 April 2019

The Trump administration has set NASA an ambitious goal of returning to the moon, but the agency doesn't have enough money or the right spacecraft to achieve this


Two days remain until the planned liftoff of a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft on the company’s Falcon 9 rocket—the first launch of a commercially built and operated American spacecraft and space system designed for humans. Liftoff is targeted for 2:49 a.m. EST on Saturday, March 2, from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Demo-1 mission to the International Space Station serves as an end-to-end test of the system’s capabilities.

SpaceX is about to launch a dummy astronaut called Ripley to the ISS

1 March 2019

SpaceX plans an uncrewed test flight of the Dragon spacecraft on 2 March, which will carry cargo and an astronaut dummy to the International Space Station


Robots in Into the Unknown exhibition

This science fiction trip is delightful, confusing – and risky

9 June 2017

Pinning down science fiction in a new exhibition may be a hopeless task. Just let Into the Unknown inspire you to boldly explore your own new frontiers


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