25 April 2018
The Final Mission: Preserving NASA’s Apollo Sites
.... The best way to decide whether the subject is of interest is to consider the question of those first historic footprints on an alien world, made in the lunar dust by Armstrong and Aldrin. If no-one returns to the Moon, they will remain...
29 April 2018
Mission to Methone
... ‘hero’. He discovers that one of the asteroids he’s surveying for mining is actually a derelict spaceship, a relic of a war between “alien civilizations that have very different ideas about what should be done about emerging civilizations like our...
13 April 2019
Space Sirens, Scientists and Princesses
... as leading characters, but there are many interesting exceptions to the rule in science fiction. Think: Ripley in The Alien franchise, the ‘tooled up’ Sarah Conner in Terminator 2 and Trinity in the Matrix. As with many other aspects of SF, its...
17 October 2019
Hubble gets a good look at interstellar visitor Comet 2I/Borisov
... example, it offers clues to the chemical composition, structure, and dust characteristics of a planetary building block presumably forged in an alien star system a long time ago and far away. “Because another star system could be quite different...
18 December 2019
After delays, ESA’s exoplanet mission launches successfully
... known planets beyond our Solar System and provide key insight into the nature of these distant, alien worlds. Scientists had long speculated about the existence of exoplanets until the discovery of 51 Pegasi b, the first...
11 October 2021
Blue Origin flight with William Shatner postponed until 13 October
... is currently the host and executive producer of The UnXplained on The History Channel. From the producers of Ancient Aliens and The Curse of Oak Island, the one-hour, non-fiction series explores the world’s most...
