July 2020
Key technologies for space exploration
... for crewed spacecraft represents a completely different challenge for engineers, but is no less important for the structured exploration of space… and it begins with learning to grow food in space. Obtaining all the same kinds of vitamins and...
November 2021
Megasatellite habitat at Ceres
Building a settlement on Mars has gained a lot of traction in the last few years but is the red planet the best place to establish such a base? According to a recent study, such a settlement is possible but, instead of targeting a close planetary ...
17 January 2018
First inactive stellar-mass black hole found in a globular cluster
Astronomers studying the strange behaviour of a star in the cluster NGC 3201 have found an even more unusual reason for its mysterious movements – the gravitational pull of an invisible black hole with about four times the mass of the Sun. This is ...
26 February 2018
More water on the Moon than previously thought
A new study into the Moon’s water content and how it is distributed on its surface now indicates that there might be more of it than previously thought and that it might not be confined to a particular region or type of terrain, but is more ...
27 March 2019
NASA to land humans on the Moon again by 2024 - but with better fitting spacesuits hopefully
It has been a tumultuous week this week for NASA as far as news goes. The space agency’s Administrator Jim Bridenstine has just announced that ‘President Donald Trump has asked NASA to accelerate US plans to return to the Moon and to land humans on ...
07 September 2019
Chandrayaan-2 lander fails to touchdown successfully
India’s attempt to be the first nation to land close to the south pole of the Moon has unfortunately been thwarted as contact with Chandrayaan-2 was lost minutes before its Vikram module was due to touch down at the lunar south pole. The Chandrayaan...
