If an alien were to look at Earth, many human technologies – from cell towers to fluorescent light bulbs –…
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Plans to send astronauts to Mars seem to be working out for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). A…
Humans experience all manner of things every day without noticing it. You walk through massive magnetic fields. You are bombarded…
Virgin Orbit, a US company which provides launch services for satellites, has announced that the first orbital space mission from…
A new dawn of space exploration is upon us. NASA aims to land the first woman and person of colour on the…
In July, a puzzling new image of a distant extreme star system surrounded by surreal concentric geometric rungs had even…
On September 26, after a nine-month journey through the Solar System, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission impacted an asteroid called…
Russia’s Sputnik kicked off the space age in 1957. But Africa didn’t join until 1999. Why? Sputnik happened partly due to…
Sputnik 1 was launched by the former Soviet Union on October 4, 1957, marking the start of the space age. Since…
Venus, often called Earth’s “evil twin” planet, formed closer to the Sun and has since evolved quite differently from our own…