29 March 2018
NASA Voyager 1&2 Owners’ Workshop Manual
... details of languages and music on the Record. As Casani writes in his foreword, “We knew that it was unlikely that [an] alien culture would chance upon either Voyager, but what the record said about us was more important...
29 March 2018
The Secret Genesis of Area 51
Thanks to Hollywood and TV series like the X-Files, ‘Area 51’ is synonymous with extraterrestrials, alien spaceships and men dressed in black. It was in fact, as the author reliably informs us, “a clandestine base of operations in the ...
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...
