August 2019
Reinventing the space museum
... Bazzi is the founder and creative director at Exosphere, where he is currently developing his concept for the Museum of Interstellar Art. In his spare time, Wael volunteers as Outreach Coordinator with the Planetary Society, promoting space science...
January 2020
Small body missions unveil interplanetary secrets
... km in diameter, is the first protoplanet we have visited. Solar system formation About 4.6 billion years ago the collapse of an interstellar cloud of dust and gas heralded the creation of our solar system. Around our formative sun, a myriad...
April 2020
Lunar artefact – a time capsule for the future
... they serve as poignant individual statements for the artists themselves. Carl Sagan’s Golden Record, sent into interstellar space aboard the Voyager spacecraft, set a course as a more didactic synthesis of the human experience, and was...
January 2021
Evolution of volatiles on the Moon
... bodies we know today as Earth and Moon A little more than four and a half billion years ago an interstellar cloud began to collapse. The Sun was forming at the centre and accretion of dust was building the...
October 2021
Space in the movies – lessons for spacefarers
... war films that, in my view, foolishly assume we could beat a conquering fleet of alien spaceships capable of traversing interstellar space. Promotion poster for Avatar. Human nature What is the overall message from Hollywood? It’s a straightforward...
March 2022
Space travel and environmental sustainability
..., isolated from its interplanetary environment, is vulnerable to collapse, its diaspora on a solar system - ultimately interstellar - scale promises to strengthen it through diversification, and to preserve all that we value of human heritage for...
