In 2019, India attempted to land a spacecraft on the Moon – and ended up painting a kilometres-long streak of…
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On Wednesday August 23, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) mission Chandrayaan-3 will deploy its lander and rover to the…
The idea of space-based solar power (SBSP) – using satellites to collect energy from the sun and “beam” it to…
The universe we live in is a transparent one, where light from stars and galaxies shines bright against a clear,…
Asteroids are chunks of rock left over from the formation of our Solar System. Approximately half a billion asteroids with sizes…
There’s no question that sending human beings to space is an extraordinarily difficult and perilous proposition. Since human space exploration…
In 1977, five years before ET asked to “phone home”, two robotic spacecraft began their own journey into space. Almost…
Last year, we made an intriguing discovery – a radio signal in space that switched on and off every 18 minutes.…
NASA’s Artemis program aims to return humans to the Moon for the first time in more than 50 years, with the first…
We’re only halfway through 2023, and it feels already like the year of alien contact. In February, President Joe Biden gave…