Something remarkable is happening in a remote part of South Africa’s Northern Cape province, in a semi-desert area called the…
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There’s a lot of trash on the Moon right now – including nearly 100 bags of human waste – and with countries…
Early universe observations by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) cannot be explained by current cosmological models. These models estimate the universe…
In 2019, India attempted to land a spacecraft on the Moon – and ended up painting a kilometres-long streak of…
On Wednesday August 23, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) mission Chandrayaan-3 will deploy its lander and rover to the…
The idea of space-based solar power (SBSP) – using satellites to collect energy from the sun and “beam” it to…
The universe we live in is a transparent one, where light from stars and galaxies shines bright against a clear,…
Asteroids are chunks of rock left over from the formation of our Solar System. Approximately half a billion asteroids with sizes…
There’s no question that sending human beings to space is an extraordinarily difficult and perilous proposition. Since human space exploration…
In 1977, five years before ET asked to “phone home”, two robotic spacecraft began their own journey into space. Almost…