Russia’s Sputnik kicked off the space age in 1957. But Africa didn’t join until 1999. Why? Sputnik happened partly due to…
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Sputnik 1 was launched by the former Soviet Union on October 4, 1957, marking the start of the space age. Since…
Venus, often called Earth’s “evil twin” planet, formed closer to the Sun and has since evolved quite differently from our own…
When the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1 in 1957, it represented humanity’s first significant foray into the cosmos. Our imagination was…
In 2020, China’s Chang’e 5 mission sampled more than a kilogram of Moon rock and soil and brought it back…
Astronomers now routinely discover planets orbiting stars outside of the solar system – they’re called exoplanets. But in summer 2022, teams working…
Since 2018, NASA’s InSight mission to Mars has recorded seismic waves from more than 1,300 marsquakes in its quest to probe the internal structure…
Nasa’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (Dart) spacecraft is designed to be a one hit wonder. It will end its days by crashing…
More than half of the thousands of satellites in orbit are now defunct, and this accumulation of floating space debris…
Elon Musk’s space tech company SpaceX is rapidly advancing towards its goal of establishing Starlink – a massive satellite network…