Last week, two noteworthy events occurred in and around space travel. First, Jeff Bezos offered to give NASA $2 billion…
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The MLM thruster at the centre of the very recent scare at the International Space Station (ISS) has nothing to…
Remember the Artemis Lunar Lander contract NASA awarded to SpaceX in April this year? Yeah, Jeff Bezos, the very rich…
Tokyo 2020 drone show dazzles Image: Olympics The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games kicked off on Friday last week and as is tradition with the opening ceremony, we were treated to a dazzling display. This year, towards the end of the ceremony, we saw a fleet of over 1,800 drones take to the sky where they collectively
Last month the Hubble space telescope hit a glitch that powered down the long-lived scientific instrument. Objects in space stop…
On June 25, astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Thomas Pesquet successfully completed an almost seven-hour EVA (extravehicular activity, or spacewalk) to install solar…
Tide, if you’re a South African internet user, was last seen in 2018 during something called the Tide Pod Challenge.…
Space exploration continues to get a boost in 2021. NASA’s Artemis mission, the agency’s return to the lunar surface, is…
NASA’s Hubble telescope is getting a little old, but it’s still running. Or, rather, it was. The ageing space hardware,…
As outlandish and impossible as most movie-made sci-fi tech can be, it appears 3D printing organs is becoming more and…