Resources

Delve further into space with the resources provided below. Come back throughout the run of the exhibition for the newest updates.

Poster featuring two people looking at green hills and snowy mountains. Text reads: Earth: Your oasis in Space where the air is free and breathing is easy.

Poster featuring a planet on fire and an astronaut looking from space. Text reads: 55 Cancri e Lava life - Skies sparkle above a never-ending ocean of lava.

An astronaut looking at two suns from a barren planet. Text reads: Relax on Kepler-16b - the land of two suns where your shadow always has company.

Check out more posters at Visions of the Future (nasa.gov)

Futurescaping Space Podcast

Futurescaping Space explores humankind’s fascination and forays into space, from first charting the heavens to our near-future geopolitical jostling within Low-Earth Orbit and outwards to the Moon and Mars.

This series discusses what these activities can reveal about our own home planet and us as a spacefaring species, including whether we should be even going into space in the first place.

Produced by Ruth Sanderson and presented by Dr Claire Cousins, with various guests.
This series was funded by the STFC Knowledge Exchange 2023/2024 Fund to Dr Sami Mikahil.

Alien Worlds Playlist

Soundtrack your visit with our Alien Worlds Playlist on Spotify.

Alien Worlds Readings

Have a look at the books and resources below to tap into your imagination and become an exoplanet scientist.

Humans have travelled to the Moon in their imaginations ever since poets began writing about it. All a writer has to do is come up with a plausible way to get there, and his hero can end up in a place where unbelievable things come true.
Mikhail Lapirov-Skoblo, engineer and science writer, 1925. Translated by Dr Emily Finer