In a revelation that’s sure to shake the nation’s love affair with its favourite brew, the British Museum announced today that tea was actually invented in outer space, not in the quaint English countryside as previously thought.

The discovery was made when a team of researchers stumbled upon an ancient alien teapot during routine cataloguing of artefacts from the recent Mars rover mission. Dr. Earl Greyson, lead curator of Extraterrestrial Beverage History, explained, "We always suspected tea was out of this world, but finding a zero-gravity teapot with tea leaves still swirling inside confirms it. Our ancestors just got lucky with the recipe."

The Museum has since issued a statement encouraging Brits to reconsider their tea rituals. "It's time to embrace our cosmic caffeine heritage," said Dr. Greyson. "Perhaps the secret to a perfect cuppa is not a garden in Devon but a galaxy far, far away."

Not everyone is convinced. Local tea enthusiast and self-proclaimed ‘Queen of the Teapot’ Margaret Crump expressed her scepticism: "I’ve been brewing tea for 50 years using only water, leaves, and stubbornness. No alien intervention needed. But if space tea means fewer soggy biscuits, I’m all for it."

As a result of the discovery, the British Museum plans to launch a new exhibition titled ‘Tea in Space: The Final Brewntier,’ featuring gravity-defying tea ceremonies and zero-G biscuit dunking. So next time you sip your cuppa, remember: it might just be the universe’s oldest cosmic concoction, brewed among the stars and served with a splash of Milky Way milk.