17 March 2021
Like Venus, ancient water on Mars is trapped in its crust, new study says
...a new study revealed that Venus may be hiding oceans worth of water in its crust - a finding... vast retention of ancient water, which could equate to as much as several oceans' worth of H2O, decreased over the Noachian period (~3.7 to 4.1 billion years...
February 2017
Protecting our space interests
... might be compared to that of the 19th and 20th centuries with respect to maritime shipping and exploiting the oceans’ resources where there was a wilful ignorance of the negative impact of pollution and a general blindness to the long...
January 2019
Visiting an asteroid to find out how life began
... building material that circled the young star. It is likely that the Earth initially formed dry, without oceans or lakes. Water would then have been delivered via icy meteorites that formed in the chillier outer...
January 2019
Saving humanity – is space up to the job?
... a wide range of space-based threats, and realise the potential of a wide range of space resources that include oceans of water and many other vital resources. Space shields, space colonies, space-based clean energy systems...
November 2019
PROSPECTing for lunar polar volatiles
... is a bit smaller than that of Asia. While other continents are typically separated from ours by the water of oceans, the Moon lies amidst the void of space surrounding our planet. Both hostile and fascinating, the...
February 2020
Visions of spaceflight before the Space Age
Whether exploring the highest mountain peaks in the world, the deepest regions of the oceans, or outer space and our planetary neighbours, travellers have used books and magazine articles to document their ...
