'So many houses in Ireland hadn’t water or sewerage and you were watching man do something you could hardly imagine'

British astronomer Patrick Moore died today aged 89, a group of his friends and staff said.

Man’s ingenuity will prove soothsayer pessimists wrong about our future resources, writes Matt Ridley

“WE choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not only because they are easy, but because they are hard.”