The First City on Mars review: How to make life on Mars a reality
8 February 2023
Living on Mars will take enormous work, but urban planner Justin Hollander is already on the case in this guide to settling the Red Planet
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Original Sin review: Was space flight tainted from the get-go?
25 January 2023
A convincing new book by space policy analyst Bleddyn Bowen reveals how space technology was born out of appalling weaponry – and still has a militaristic bent
From Interstellar to Hidden Figures: 12 of the best space movies
3 August 2021
Interstellar, Moon, Proxima, Alien, Hidden Figures... From science fiction to biographical drama, does your favourite movie about space make our list?
Voyagers review: Lord of the Flies in space is full of mystery
29 June 2021
Voyagers follows a group of genetically engineered children on their way to a distant planet. It has some good acting, but the film doesn't quite live up to its promise
Stowaway review: A claustrophobic and philosophical space thriller
22 April 2021
Netflix 's Stowaway, starring Anna Kendrick, Daniel Dae Kim, Shamier Anderson and Toni Collette, tells the story of a space crew who face an impossible choice when an unplanned passenger compromises the lives of everyone on board
Chaos Walking review: Unsettling sci-fi that exposes men’s thoughts
12 April 2021
Sci-fi film Chaos Walking, featuring Tom Holland and Daisy Ridley, is a disconcerting little masterpiece of sensitive acting and well-judged world-building, says Simon Ings
Carlo Rovelli’s new book: Eclectic essays on physics, history and more
28 October 2020
Carlo Rovelli’s bestsellers saw him dubbed the poet of physics and showed a mind seeking knowledge for its own sake. His new book, There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness, reminds us why we need more minds like his
Carlo Rovelli: Where does the stuff that falls into a black hole go?
28 October 2020
What happens to matter in a black hole? The question has spawned many paradoxes, and in an extract from his latest book, physics superstar Carlo Rovelli proposes an answer
Space Dogs review: A dog's-eye view of how Laika could have lived
12 September 2020
Space Dogs follows the story of Laika, the first living being to orbit Earth, and imagines what her life could have been like had she survived reentry
Is there another planet in the universe just like Earth?
8 July 2020
Audible podcast Exoplanets explores the hunt to find planets like our own outside our solar system. There are potentially millions of them out there, and more are found every day
