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Nasa unfurls giant solar sail – and you can see it from Earth
Centuries after it was first theorised, the sunlight propulsion method could herald a new era of space exploration…
What Can Scientists Learn From The Eclipse?
The Great North American Eclipse of 2024 will offer spectacular views and provide scientists an opportunity to study…
Total solar eclipses provide an opportunity to engage with science, culture and history
Throughout time, eclipses have inspired societies to understand the cosmos and its events. (Shutterstock) Nikhil Arora, Queen’s University,…
India Lands A Spacecraft Near The Moon’s South Pole, A First For The World As It Joins Elite Club
NEW DELHI (AP) — India became the first country to land a spacecraft near the moon’s south pole…
Stars Made Us, And, We Made Stars.
In life’s grand weave, where fate’s threads play,A dance of dreams, luck’s fleeting sway,Stars may guide, but do…
The Speculative Promise and Peril of Hyperintelligent Minds
Hyperintelligent entities, if they exist or will exist, could conceivably solve problems and generate insights that are currently…
The James Webb Space Telescope is finally ready to do science – and it’s seeing the universe more clearly than even its own engineers hoped for
NASA is scheduled to release the first images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope on July 12,…
SpaceX Inspiration4 mission will send 4 people with minimal training into orbit – and bring space tourism closer to reality
On Sept. 15, 2021, the next batch of space tourists are set to lift off aboard a SpaceX…
Where The International Space Station’s Visitors Come From
These countries have sent the highest number of individuals to visit the International Space Station. These are the…
SpaceX Reaches For Milestone In Spaceflight – A Private Company Launches Astronauts Into Orbit
On May 27, two American astronauts, Robert L. Behnken and Douglas G. Hurley, are planning to launch from…
Space Exploration Is Still The Brightest Hope-Bringer We Have
I am one of the few African-American aerospace engineers who helped design the Apollo spaceships that took men…
Missions To The Moon
Since Neil Armstrong’s first landing, other countries have since sent their own missions to explore the Moon. Over…
Humanity Has Managed To Change Places We’ve Barely Even Visited
From the Mariana Trench to the Moon, we don’t have to be in a place very much to…
What Would It Take To Build A Tower As High As Outer Space?
The human desire to create ever bigger and more impressive structures is insatiable. The pyramids of Ancient Egypt,…
Why Getting Back To The Moon Is So Damn Hard
The $20 million Lunar X Prize was supposed to send startups into space. The cost turned out to…
Could These Predictions Of The Future Actually Come True?
A blind mystic who many claim predicted 9/11, the rise of ISIS, the Boxing Day tsumani and Brexit…
Why SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy Launch May Be A Game-Changer
The successful launch of the Falcon Heavy rocket by billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s SpaceX is significant for several reasons. Here…
Three Enlightenment About Earth From Astronauts
“My first view of Earth happened a few seconds after launch,” says scientist Helen Sharman, the first British…
How Will America’s Space Policy Fare Post-Election?
Space has barely registered in this year’s debate about who should be the next president, but experts will…
Earth Is Speaking Back To Us With Alphabets!
In July 2012, while working on a story about wildfires, NASA’s science writer and social media manager Adam…
Your Perfect Home In Singapore, Depends On You – A Quick Guide
Deciding where to live is, aside from selecting a school, the biggest single decision that keeps expats awake…
Discover Art That’s Meant To Be Touched
New art installations dot Brooklyn Bridge Park, and they’re designed specifically to be touched or used by parkgoers.…
These Images Of World Cities From “Space” Are Not What They Seem
These high-quality images may look like photographs of world cities at night taken by astronauts from the International…
Cities In Space?
After swingeing budget cuts at NASA, a loose agglomeration of private companies – including Elon Musk’s SpaceX –…