18 November 2019
First global geological map of Titan unveiled
... to tens of kilometres in length and up to a couple of kilometres high, that may have formed by contractional tectonism early in Titan’s history. Also doted about are smaller but equally lumpy hummocky regions. The largest hummocky outcrop is in the...
30 May 2020
An historic day for US spaceflight as Crew Dragon launches successfully
30th May, 2020 will go down in spaceflight history as the day two US astronauts lifted off from US soil on a SpaceX private rocket destined for the International ...
July 2020
Life in the universe – common or not?
... is much higher than unity, it would be in conflict with the lack of evidence for multiple abiogenesis events in Earth’s history. If we discover organisms beyond Earth, the first possibility is that they have the same origin as us (i.e., born by the...
01 April 2025
Florida’s Space Coast
...book, which is part of a series on Florida’s history and culture, serves to enhance that understanding by analysing...the book exhibits a dual personality in being a dispassionate, academic history, while serving as a bit of an autobiography. In my ...
December 2014
MAVEN and the evolution of Mars
... places and their resources. Earlier in modern human history there were new continents to be found, occupied and..., MAVEN already plays a role in the very human history of robotic solar system exploration – unexpected discoveries notwithstanding....
June 2017
Spaceplane rationale - a new way of thinking
... from expendable to reusable launchers will come to be seen as being as profound as the change from balloons to aeroplanes in the history of air transport. The perception of low-cost and safe access to space using existing technology will change...
