REVIEW: Space - Could Life Exist Beyond Earth

It's not every day you get to touch a piece of the Moon!

Plunge into the cosmos as you submerge yourself in SPACE, at the National History Museum's intergalactic new show. Design your own space mission, get your hands on a massive asteroid AND a chunck of Mars as you bounce, smell and feel your way around our awesome solar system. Our galaxy is estimated to contain anywhere from 100 billion to 400 billion stars and planets. 60 million of those are in the so called 'habitable zone'. You can't help but think there must be life out there somewhere ?

Expect a huge amount of interactives, our favourite was touching the squashy surface of asteroid Bennu. Not solid as you would expect, when a spacecraft landed to take a sample it sank down as if it had landed on a pile of rubble. Mad! Of all the planets (yes you can sniff them) we thought Titan was the most fragrant. Mars smelt very bad. The epic space vehicles designed to retrieve samples from galaxies far far away are totally mind boggling.

A STELLAR show. It will blow your mind.

By Julia Colls 15 May 2025

Space

National History Museum

16 May-22 Feb

£16.50 adults, £8.25 kids