The idea that aliens may have visited the Earth is becoming increasingly popular. Around a fifth of UK citizens believe Earth…
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On a Sunday morning in late August 2024, a nine-year-old girl named Eli-zé du Toit was sitting on her grandparents’…
No Man’s Sky might rank as the best comeback story in gaming. The highly ambitious space exploration game went from…
Sunita Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore must have heaved a sigh of relief when they opened the hatch and floated into…
Our Sun drives a constant outward flow of plasma, or ionized gas, called the solar wind, which envelops our solar…
A European spacecraft is about to zip by both Earth and the Moon in the space of 24 hours. In…
Giant black holes in the centres of galaxies like our own Milky Way are known to occasionally munch on nearby…
The private spacewalk that is the sexiest feature of the upcoming Polaris Dawn mission, being facilitated by SpaceX and a…
Two astronauts marooned in space may sound like the plot of a Hollywood blockbuster, but for two NASA crew members, it is…
A supermoon may sound exciting, but it’s a modest coincidence. As the Moon orbits Earth, its distance from us varies from 357,000…