Space: The final frontier

Thu Jun 04 2026 at 10:30 am to 12:45 pm UTC+01:00

Tempest Anderson Hall, | York

York Festival of Ideas
Publisher/HostYork Festival of Ideas
Space: The final frontier
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Join our expert panel to explore how Earth's knowledge fits into the vastness of our ever-expanding universe.
About this Event

Speakers: Carlos Frenk, Catherine Heymans and Stephanie Flanders (chair)

Is there anybody out there? As we hurtle through the 21st century, grabbing at new inventions and technologies that forever change the way we think and behave, our speakers consider the bigger questions of the day.

With Astronomer Royal for Scotland Catherine Heymans and cosmologist Carlos Frenk, our panel asks where our knowledge, gleaned from our own small blue planet, fits in the vastness of an ever-expanding universe.

Keynote: 10.30am to 11.15am

Panel: 11.30am to 12.45pm

This event is part of the Festival Focus series ‘From Brownfield to Blue Sky’ presented in partnership with York Central. You may also be interested in ‘’ on Thursday 4 June from 1.45pm to 4pm. (hyperlinks to add)

About York Central

York Central is the UK’s largest brownfield regeneration site and will be pivotal in the city’s history, adding a new urban quarter of homes, commercial development and public spaces to an unparalleled ancient built environment.

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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Tempest Anderson Hall,, Yorkshire Museum, Museum Gardens, York, United Kingdom

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