NASA’s DART mission – Double Asteroid Redirection Test – was humanity’s first real-world planetary defence mission. In September 2022, the DART spacecraft…
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NASA has announced the first detection of possible biosignatures in a rock on the surface of Mars. The rock contains…
Using radar, a NASA spacecraft, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), has confirmed the existence of caves beneath the lunar surface. Here’s why such geological…
When considering human settlements on the Moon, Mars and further afield, much attention is given to the travel times, food…
NASA’s missions are some of the most technologically advanced and critically important endeavours. From the Mars Rover explorations to the…
Astronauts often report that the joy of eating is lost in space. Food that tastes fabulous on Earth may become bland…
Black holes are remarkable astronomical objects with gravity so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape them. The most gigantic ones,…
For the past few weeks, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have been stuck on the International Space Station…
When Frank Herbert introduced Dune in 1965, the world read about his futuristic thought-controlled space navigation systems and large-scale teleporters with…
Of the more than 74,000 known meteorites – rocks that fall to Earth from asteroids or planets colliding together – only 385…