Dr Buzz Aldrin discussed Apollo, ‘space selfies’ and how to colonise Mars in a recent Science Museum event.
Oscar-winning director Alfonso Cuarón discussed his space thriller Gravity in a recent event at the Museum.
Scientists have sent shock-waves through the scientific world with the announcement that they have detected gravitational waves.
Cosmologist Lisa Randall discusses everything from dark matter to the dinosaurs with Roger Highfield.
Curator Doug Millard explores the unknown story of the father of the space age, Sergei Korolev.
Celebrating Tim Peake’s mission into space at the Science Museum with 11,000 visitors, 72 events, four cosmonauts and two live broadcasts
We asked six of our enthusiastic Cosmonauts exhibition volunteers to share their experiences so far.
To celebrate a century of Einstein’s famous theory, we explore the past, present and future of general relativity.
To celebrate Tim Peake’s mission, we asked our followers and a few famous faces to share their #SpaceMemory with us.
To celebrate Tim Peake’s Principia mission, Tim and other famous faces shared their #SpaceMemory with us.
It seems like everyone’s talking about sending people to Mars. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has just found evidence of liquid water on Mars today, Ridley Scott’s The Martian is bringing the Red Planet to life in our cinemas and you can see a spacesuit designed for use on Mars in our Cosmonauts exhibition. There is hope that we’ll be sending people to Mars for real in the next few decades – but when they go, will they be ready for […]
Dr Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space, today declared that she would like to join the director of the Science Museum on a space flight during the launch of the museum’s most ambitious exhibition ever, Cosmonauts: Birth of the Space Age. With the director, Ian Blatchford, and Dr Tereshkova was Sergei Krikalev a veteran of six space flights and eight space walks who, until very recently, held the record for the amount of time in space – 803 days, […]