President Joe Biden is hosting the Second US-Africa Leaders Summit in mid-December 2022. The focus will be on eight areas: economic engagement; peace, security…
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Construction of the world’s biggest radio astronomy facility, the SKA Observatory, begins today. The observatory is a global project 30…
Earlier this month, Meta announced new AI software called Galactica: “a large language model that can store, combine and reason about…
Some stars just get unlucky. There are billions of stars within a typical galaxy. Yet once every 100,000 years or…
The European Space Agency made history last week with the announcement of the first “parastronaut”, 41-year-old UK citizen John McFall.…
The night sky is a shared wilderness. On a dark night, away from the city lights, you can see the…
Since the first planet orbiting a star other than the Sun was discovered in 1995, we have realised that planets…
Neil Armstrong took his historic “one small step” on the Moon in 1969. And just three years later, the last Apollo astronauts…
On July 31 2013 a constellation of US defence satellites saw a streak of light over South Australia as a rock from…
Humans have been trying to get back to the moon for a long time. NASA’s Artemis 1 mission, launching tomorrow,…