November 2025
Searching for life beyond Earth
..., using ground-based telescopes to detect the tiny wobbles a planet induces in its host star’s motion. The challenge here is filtering out the ‘noise’ from the star itself, but progress is being made. The second approach takes us into space, where...
March 2026
Lessons learned on the way to space
... burns) and I felt that this time, the spaceship’s handling and performance were so good that the changes we had made in our piloting technique had finally solved the challenges faced earlier in the programme. It turned out I was wrong and...
May 2026
Focusing the world on planetary defence
... for metals like platinum and nickel, but these ventures raise complex legal and ethical questions. The challenge is not just technological but philosophical: will we exploit asteroids as we have Earth, or will we learn to approach space with...
03 September 2015
Orion and NASA’s Mission to Mars at IAC 2015
...flight test in December 2014, Orion's next milestone will be a flight beyond the orbit of the moon. The challenges, problems and successes of this difficult mission, as well as the next steps in taking humans beyond Low Earth Orbit, will be explained...
