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The latest episodes of Doctor Who podcast Something Who compare 1975 story The Ark in Space with 2010 episode The Beast Below . I thought I ...

Out today, The Story of the Solar System - A Visual Journey , is a sumptuous big book of space infographics written by Dr Maggie Aderin-Poco...

The official Doctor Who website has announced my new book, The Time-Travelling Almanac , to be published on 3 October. It is illustrated b...

I've just received my copies of The Sky at Night: The Art of Stargazing , a new guide by Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock to the 88 constellatio...

I couldn't resist this memoir of the first moon landing by the man who stayed in orbit while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin descended to...

The third book in the Lady Astronaut series (after  The Calculating Stars  and  The Fated Sky ) is another triumph, and having struggled to ...

This book accompanying Radio 4's science panel show The Infinite Monkey Cage is largely a collection of debates addressed on that pro...

I enjoyed the recent first series of Star Trek: Picard but was very aware of missing the references as I've not seen all of Star Trek:...

After the smart, brilliant, thrilling The Calculating Stars , this second novel in the Lady Astronaut series is just as good - thrilling,...

Out in November, Wicked Sisters is a trilogy of Doctor Who stories in which the Fifth Doctor and Leela must destroy two powerful beings ...

In 1896, Holmes and Watson are called in to investigate the disappearance of Thomas Kellway from a locked room with a window in the door,...

Ten year-old Aniyah is a star hunter, an astronomer, thrilled by the discovery of a new star in the night sky. But she thinks the star is...

This wasn't what I expected. As a classic of science-fiction, I thought it would be engineer-heroes conquering the frontier and debat...

This smart, thrilling, brilliant new novel is about the women who are part of the astronaut programme in an alternate 1950s. History dive...

This Saturday morning, Radio 4 Extra are repeating Floating in Space - a compendium of space-related programming presented by Samira Ahm...

The Moon - A Celebration of Our Celestial Neighbour is a new book published by Royal Observatory Greenwich to accompany the Moon exhibiti...

The June 2019 issue of medical journal the Lancet Psychiatry includes my review of the film Out of Blue . "Detective Mike Hoolihan...

I've an essay in  The Moon - A celebration of our celestial neighbour , a new book   edited by Melanie Vandenbrouck .  In July it wi...