19 November 2021
New mission to search for habitable planets close to Earth announced
... ago, astronomers made the surprising discovery of an Earth-like planet orbiting our closest stellar neighbour, Proxima ... of life beyond our planet. “If we consider the nearest few dozen stars, we expect a handful of rocky planets like Earth orbiting ...
October 2015
Houston, we have a Spaceport
...the ground across multiple industries. When Dream Chaser flies back to Earth, it may land at the Houston Spaceport. One of the ...space, and open up space for the betterment of life on Earth. Spaceports can be the catalyst for this new, thoroughly 21st ...
February 2016
Is Jupiter Really Our Protective Shield?
... shield habitable planets from impacts is an important question because impact events have both enabled life on Earth and nearly extinguished it. Early in Earth’s history it is believed our planet was struck by an object between one and three times...
August 2016
Are the days of innovation in global space over - or just beginning?
...to NASA, the main engines propelling the Space Shuttle to Earth orbit generate a total of 37 million horse-power. Alternatively... (ISS) allows us to imagine living a life outside Earth’s atmosphere. Canadian Space Agency astronaut Chris Hadfield ...
August 2016
The promise of space tourism
...adventure it would give the people of the world. Millions of kids might be inspired to pursue science and improve life on Earth as doctors, engineers and inventors. Today’s students don’t view living and working in space or on Mars as science fiction...
September 2016
Moon or Mars - how logical is NASA’s next step?
... entrepreneur Yuri Milner hopes to be responsible for the first Earth-made probe to visit Alpha Centauri. And, attempting to ...at the point where the line between science fiction and real life is seeming more blurred. Celestial mining is now a very...
