The European Space Agency made history last week with the announcement of the first “parastronaut”, 41-year-old UK citizen John McFall.…
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The night sky is a shared wilderness. On a dark night, away from the city lights, you can see the…
SpaceX unleashes a Dragon This weekend saw the launch of Space X’s Dragon spacecraft, which arrived at the International Space…
Since the first planet orbiting a star other than the Sun was discovered in 1995, we have realised that planets…
Neil Armstrong took his historic “one small step” on the Moon in 1969. And just three years later, the last Apollo astronauts…
NASA has just launched its first rocket in the Artemis program, which will, among other things, take scientific experiments to produce…
Humans have been trying to get back to the moon for a long time. NASA’s Artemis 1 mission, launching tomorrow,…
Everything in the universe has gravity – and feels it too. Yet this most common of all fundamental forces is…
There’s an awkward, irksome problem with our understanding of nature’s laws which physicists have been trying to explain for decades.…
South Africa may not have the largest presence in space but the country certainly contributes. Our astronomy is top-notch and…