It’s amazing the sorts of things you can find on planetary surfaces humans haven’t spent very much time. Or have…
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Space exploration, if Star Trek is to be believed, is all about bringing people together. And occasionally phasering Romulans, but…
Five petite Mexican-made robots will land on the moon later this year, in June 2022. This makes up part of…
It’s reassuring to know that a $10 billion (R154 billion) space telescope like James Webb shares DNA with terrestrial telescopes.…
Space travel is all about momentum. Rockets turn their fuel into momentum that carries people, satellites and science itself forward into space.…
Don’t you just love it when South Africa gets something right? An international team of astronomers working at SA’s MeerKAT…
We’re quite used to seeing things blast off from Earth en route to the International Space Station (ISS). We’re a…
If we ever want to send human beings to Mars, we have to be sure we’ll get them back. Unless…
White holes are really just something scientists have imagined — they could exist, but we’ve never seen one, or even seen…
“Holy sharks, Batman, it’s periodic!” I exclaimed on Slack. It was the first lockdown of 2021 in Perth, and we…