20 November 2019
Insects on Mars, fungi on Venus. Evidence is presented for life on our neighbouring planets
..., or from microbe-packed rocks that have been ejected into space from Earth’s surface following a comet or meteor impact. As Earth rocks have recently been found on the Moon, processes of this nature must have occurred...
22 April 2020
SpaceX seeks permission to lower the orbit of all its first-gen Starlink satellites
... activity for some. One upon a time it was the thought of seeing a fireball zipping through the atmosphere as a meteor shower passed overhead, that drew people out into the night to stare up into space. Now, armed...
03 July 2020
More metal on the Moon than previously thought, new study suggests
... would exist," says Heggy, who is coinvestigator of the Mini-RF experiments. The discovery led to the realisation that meteors that form larger craters also carve out more of the surface material, which in turn exposes more...
11 October 2021
Disrupting Earth-bound asteroids with nukes is “very effective”, new study says
... popular by the film Armageddon; a disaster movie that centres around a crew of oil drillers sent to space to stop a meteor hurtling toward earth by blowing it up with a nuclear bomb. While the film is fictional, using a nuclear bomb to disrupt...
24 March 2023
Close approach to Earth and Moon of newly discovered asteroid
...Earth, it wouldn’t be a cataclysmic event though it could cause extreme damage locally were it to explode in the atmosphere. In 2013, a meteor a little less than a third of the size of the newly discovered space rock exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia...
29 March 2018
Northern Arizona Space Training
...-white photos with extended captions grouped into seven chapters that cover the programme from training in Meteor Crater to exploring the Moon itself; in between, we find astronauts hiking through Grand Canyon, explosives engineers creating...
