A 2019 Time magazine cover portrayed four astronauts running towards the Moon. Pictured alongside the headline “The Next Space Race”, one of…
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It is difficult to emphasise the significance of the milestone surpassed by NASA’s Mars helicopter, Ingenuity. The little (1.8kg) helicopter touched…
Some of us remember August 24 2006 like it was yesterday. It was the day Pluto got booted from the…
When NASA attempted to return to the Moon for the first time in 50 years on January 8, more was at…
Sometimes astronomers come across objects in the sky that we can’t easily explain. In our new research, published in Science, we…
Early on Saturday, January 20 2024, Japan hopes to become the fifth country to successfully land a probe on the Moon. To…
South African astronomy started an important journey two decades ago, when an initiative to attract and train future scientists in…
Over ten years ago, the Dark Energy Survey (DES) began mapping the universe to find evidence that could help us understand the…
What is the universe made of? This question has driven astronomers for hundreds of years. For the past quarter of…
Two commercial spacecraft are scheduled to launch to the Moon early in 2024 under a NASA initiative called the Commercial…