NASA’s space shuttle operated in low-Earth orbit for 30 years before its retirement in 2011. However, the US space agency’s replacement for…
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Humans have always looked at the sky, using the stars as navigation guides or for spiritual storytelling. Every human civilization…
A 2019 Time magazine cover portrayed four astronauts running towards the Moon. Pictured alongside the headline “The Next Space Race”, one of…
Before he sold his startup to Workday, MIT-trained Sayan Chakraborty worked at NASA’s famed Jet Propulsion Laboratory as an engineer…
It is difficult to emphasise the significance of the milestone surpassed by NASA’s Mars helicopter, Ingenuity. The little (1.8kg) helicopter touched…
Some of us remember August 24 2006 like it was yesterday. It was the day Pluto got booted from the…
When NASA attempted to return to the Moon for the first time in 50 years on January 8, more was at…
Sometimes astronomers come across objects in the sky that we can’t easily explain. In our new research, published in Science, we…
Early on Saturday, January 20 2024, Japan hopes to become the fifth country to successfully land a probe on the Moon. To…
South African astronomy started an important journey two decades ago, when an initiative to attract and train future scientists in…