Mars is a busy place in 2020. Four more spacecraft are set…
Category: Space
Solar Orbiter Launched To The Sun’s Poles
Sunday February 9, 2020 saw the successful launch of an Atlas V…
Hunting Ghost Particles At The South Pole
A look at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the amazing astrophysics research…
Precision Landing For Mars 2020 At Jezero
As its July 2020 launch date approaches, more information is coming to…
A New Theory Suggests Aliens Could Use Neutrinos Or Gravitational Waves To Communicate
Imagine a super-advanced civilisation capable of building on a galactic scale, enjoying…
Space Bugs That Eat Rock And Metal
Metallosphaera sedula is a single-celled organism and hails from some of the…
The World’s Darkest Skies
The River Murray International Dark Sky Reserve in South Australia is a…
Another Interstellar Visitor
The second known comet to travel through our solar system from interstellar…
International Cooperation And Competition In Outer Space
Australia’s prime minister signs deal to be part of America’s ambitious plans…
Inflatable Space Habs – Stronger, Safer, Faster, Lighter, Cheaper
Bigelow Aerospace could provide NASA with its B330 space habitat to use…
It’s Hard Enough To Land On The Moon, Let Alone Mars
Scientists at the Indian Space Research Organisation are mourning the failure of…
Orbiting Space Hotel
NASA wants to gradually commercialise the International Space Station and is offering…
NASA’s Drone Mission To Saturn’s Moon Titan
The US space agency will launch a nuclear-powered drone to the solar…
Why Sir Fred Hoyle Didn’t Get A Nobel Prize (Part 2)
Some say Sir Fred Hoyle, an English astronomer famed for his work…
Why Sir Fred Hoyle Didn’t Get A Nobel Prize (Part 1)
Some say Sir Fred Hoyle, an English astronomer famed for his work…
On Stephen Hawking’s Epitaph
Physicist Dr Tony Heyes explains the equation inscribed on Stephen Hawking’s grave…
Will We Ever Get Back To The Moon?
Mark Sirangelo, Special Assistant to the NASA Administrator, was hired to get…
How To Image A Black Hole
Physicist Dr. Tony Heyes offers his thoughts on the now famous image…
Looks Like The Universe’s Rate Of Expansion Is Variable
We chat with physicist Dr.Tony Heyes about new Hubble Space Telescope data…
Moon Shot 2.0
The US government wants to send people back to the Moon by…
Pristine Batch Of Lunar Surface Samples To Be Opened
Three containers of sealed moon rocks will soon be opened 50 years…