Did you catch our free new Space gallery on BBC Breakfast this morning?

We celebrate the first space age and the future of space exploration through incredible objects. Don't miss the two remarkable human-flown spacecraft now on display side-by-side for the first time: bit.ly/4mIEaP7

Andy’s work is beautiful in the gallery - and on offer the new Space Shop too

Visitors stand in the Science Museum's new Space gallery, observing an Apollo 10 command module, a Soyuz space capsule and a spacesuit. Also prominent are a 3D projection of the Moon and large rocket and satellite components.

Two visitors look at a large Saturn rocket thruster and a section of the BepiColombo spacecraft in the Science Museum's Space gallery.

Two visitors to the Science Museum's Space gallery sit on a bench, observing and pointing at a 3D projection of the Earth that appears suspended in the air. Another visitor observes from a standing position. A background wall shows the surface of the Moon.

A visitor to the new Space gallery at the Science Museum stands looking at Helen Sharman's spacesuit, white with blue and red trim and with a Union Flag patch visible on its left arm. In the background are the Soyuz space capsule, another visitor examining it, and its draping parachute.

Our new out-of-this-world gallery, Space, is now open!

Celebrating the first space age and the future of space exploration through incredible objects, be one of the first to experience this new gallery.

Entry included with your free museum admission ticket – book now: https://bit.ly/4mIEaP7

Lovely to see Versailles in this list

Eyes to the sky tonight 👀

Catch a glimpse of the rare planetary alignment which won’t be seen again until 2040!

The Trailblazing Black Woman Chemist Who Discovered a Treatment for Leprosy After Alice Ball's death in 1916 at age 24, a white man took credit for her research

www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-...

Could Antarctic winds prevent our climate passing a tipping point? - Science Museum Group Blog A major ocean current that regulates global temperatures - and gives the UK mild winters - is weakening due to climate change. Science Director Roger Highfield describes a new study which suggests it ...

A major ocean current that regulates global temperatures - and gives the UK mild winters - is weakening due to climate change. However, study out today suggests it may avoid collapse this century, thanks to powerful winds that whip around Antarctica blog.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/could-antarc...

Very sorry to hear Tim Radford has died. Great journalist with a vast range.

Global survey dispels myth of trust crisis in science A global survey of attitudes towards science is reassuring, though suggests scientists need to do more to engage with the public, says Science Director, Roger Highfield.

Is there a crisis of trust in science? Not according to a global survey by @ethzurich.bsky.social and @uzh-diffpsy.bsky.social out today, but scientists need to do more to engage with the public blog.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/global-surve...

A red squirrel stands on the forest floor with its front paws raised up to its mouth.

Nobody asked us for #SquirrelAppreciationDay plans, but here they are anyway 🌰

Tomorrow, we're handing over the Bluesky keys to Priscilla, the most chronically online red squirrel and self-styled Queen of Formby 🐿️✨

She made us post this photo because she says "it's my best side". 📸Gary Bailey

Versailles: Science and Splendour, Science Museum: A masterclass in storytelling This fun and fascinating show charts how the royal palace became a hub of exhilarating scientific endeavour – and home to a pampered rhino

Four star review from the Telegraph for ‘a masterclass in story telling’ www.telegraph.co.uk/art/reviews/...

Hawking Building review – the Science Museum’s giant new shed of the weird and wonderful On an old RAF airfield, a no-frills metal barn has been built to house the reserve collections of the London museum and its associates, with 300,000 objects ranging from a 1960s nuclear missile to Ste...

Discover more about the 'barcoded wonderland' that is our Hawking Building at @sipwiltshire.bsky.social, which is now open for public tours, school and research visits www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

‘Photographs did not do it justice’: King Louis XV’s magnificent rhino is star of new London exhibition After wowing the court of Versailles over 200 years ago, the jet-black beast is back in the spotlight at the Science Museum

This felt like a good first post here (I’m told this place is kinder than some other spots on social media). Fab Observer article sold in by talented team member Laura Nebout promoting the great work of other colleagues at the Science Museum.