The search for life beyond Earth is a key driver of modern astronomy and planetary science. The U.S. is building…
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What goes up must come down, and earlier this week, yet another of SpaceX’s Starships, the biggest and most powerful…
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of the European Space Agency (ESA). It has launched spectacularly successful missions,…
When you put your hand out the window of a moving car, you feel a force pushing against you called drag.…
Could humans expand beyond their homeworld and establish settlements on the planet Mars? The idea of settling the red planet…
Since Donald Trump’s recent electoral victory, rumours and speculation have circulated that NASA’s giant Moon rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), could be…
NASA plans to send crewed missions to Mars over the next decade – but the 140 million-mile (225 million-kilometer) journey to the red planet could…
A 2019 Time magazine cover portrayed four astronauts running towards the Moon. Pictured alongside the headline “The Next Space Race”, one of…
The ocean floor is famously less explored than the surface of Mars. And when our team of scientists recently mapped…
Commercial spaceflight companies such as Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin are now offering exclusive opportunities for celebrities and civilians to…