Put a few humans in outer space for a story set in the future and the result always seems to be that nothing will go their way. That's once again the broad strokes of this latest space thriller, Fort…
A briefing by some of the 10 organisations that compiled a highly critical memorandum of the ‘crisis’ at the Road Accident Fund (RAF) descended into mudslinging between representatives from the legal fraternity and RAF CEO Collins Letsoalo…
No one has ever explored the cave systems on Mars, so there's an element of the unknown to contend with in planning future missions. While it's much safer to send a robot in place of a human, it's still an immensely complex…
Despite being missing for over two months, and staying at one place for an extended period, Ingenuity seems to be in very good condition. This is primarily because scientists had already prepared for a loss of contact…
Collecting all of the data to make maps like this is one thing, but even armed with thousands of images of the planet from above, there's still a lot of work to do to make a usable terrain model.
The team started off with…
A European spacecraft around Mars sent its first livestream from the red planet to Earth on Friday to mark the 20th anniversary of its launch, but rain in Spain interfered at times.
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With the Mars simulation, Haney suggests that NASA should watch the crew for danger signs, like symptoms of depression, heightened irritability, and moodiness, and changes in sleeping and eating patterns. And for the crew, he recommends…
In June a four-person crew will enter a hangar at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, and spend one year inside a 3D printed building. Made of a slurry that—before it dried—looked like neatly laid lines of soft-serve ice cream,…
SpaceX’s Starship—a spacecraft that might one day transport people to Mars—has completed its first integrated launch, but made it only a few minutes into its highly-anticipated debut long-distance flight.Just four minutes after liftoff from…
In the early 2000s, Phil Plait wrote his first book, Bad Astronomy, which debunked conspiracy theories and fallacies, like the idea that NASA faked the moon landings in the 1970s or that planetary alignments can affect life on Earth. Twenty…