For about 15 minutes on July 21, 1961, American astronaut Gus Grissom felt at the top of the world – and indeed…
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The NASA-led Artemis-3 mission will place the first human boots on the surface of the Moon since Apollo 17’s Gene Cernan and Harrison…
Communications companies such as Starlink plan to launch tens of thousands of satellites into orbit around Earth over the next…
In the coming decade, more people will go to space than ever before as human spaceflight enters a new era.…
Imagine keeping a laser beam trained on a dime that’s 200 miles away. Now imagine doing that continuously for 24…
Astronomers, maybe more than anyone, appreciate what an island of perfection our Earth is. Our orbit may put us at…
Earth is constantly bombarded by fragments of rock and ice, also known as meteoroids, from outer space. Most of the…
Over the past decade, a new form of scepticism about human activities in space has emerged. It seems to be…
When astronomers turn our radio telescopes out towards space, we sometimes detect sporadic bursts of radio waves originating from across…
Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft launched on the morning of June 5, 2024, sending astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams into space. Following…