Imagine keeping a laser beam trained on a dime that’s 200 miles away. Now imagine doing that continuously for 24…
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Astronomers, maybe more than anyone, appreciate what an island of perfection our Earth is. Our orbit may put us at…
Earth is constantly bombarded by fragments of rock and ice, also known as meteoroids, from outer space. Most of the…
Over the past decade, a new form of scepticism about human activities in space has emerged. It seems to be…
When astronomers turn our radio telescopes out towards space, we sometimes detect sporadic bursts of radio waves originating from across…
Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft launched on the morning of June 5, 2024, sending astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams into space. Following…
The 2020s have already seen many lunar landing attempts, although several of them have crashed or toppled over. With all the excitement surrounding the…
Space might be the final frontier but that doesn’t mean it’ll stay that way. Both Boeing and SpaceX have important…
On 8 January 2024, NASA launched Peregrine Mission One, which carried capsules to the Moon containing human remains and DNA samples.…
There are three ways to look for evidence of alien technological civilisations. One is to look out for deliberate attempts…