July 2019
Lessons from our first race to the Moon
... in orbit around the Moon. The main Apollo spacecraft (the Command and Service Module) and the spider-like Lunar Module were major developments, as were the rocket testing, assembly and launch facilities at Cape...
April 2020
Evolutionary lessons for an interplanetary future
... beaks could crush seeds, while cactus finches with slender beaks became specialised in eating insects and spiders. The key factor that makes this process happen so readily on islands is isolation. Any changes that affect...
March 2021
Space weather and risk mitigation
.... In 2006, the United Nations Platform for Space-based Information for Disaster Management and Emergency Response (UN-SPIDER) was established under the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA). This platform promotes...
11 January 2016
Space Rock Legend David Bowie Dies Aged 69
... the extraterrestrial topic in 1972 with the release of “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars” (more commonly known as Ziggy Stardust), his fifth studio album. The album loosely tells...
24 October 2018
New constellations for Fermi's 10th birthday
... right that he should be given a place among the stars. The collection also includes the Black Widow Spider. Although normally associated with a small, dark-coloured but deadly arachnid, this particular version is named after...
09 September 2019
Ancient light helps to unravel cosmic "dark age"
... project is the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA); a low frequency radio array that looks like thousands of robotic spiders stuck on square mesh tiles (see below). It sits in a radio-quiet environment 800 kilometres north of Perth, Australia...
