27 June 2018
Hayabusa2 reaches Ryugu after a 42 month journey
... called MASCOT (Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout) to help identify its chemical composition and a Small Carry-on Impactor (SCI) designed to blow a hole in the asteroid surface. The explosion is to remove the asteroid’s weathered surface and expose...
30 September 2019
Elon Musk unveils SpaceX's massive new Starship
... envisaged rockets might look in the future, way back when flying to the Moon was a fanciful idea of a sci-fi novel. And, when parked next to a SpaceX Falcon 1 rocket, the first vehicle the company put into...
19 February 2020
Molecular oxygen detected for the first time in another galaxy
In a far-off galaxy with a name apt enough for a sci-fi film, astronomers have for the first time detected molecular oxygen beyond the Milky Way and it ...
19 October 2020
Astronomers identify a true water-world that could have an ocean over 100 kms deep
... the properties of these two planets with unprecedented precision,” says lead author Lillo-Box. Fans of the sci-fi blockbuster Interstellar might recall that the first planet Matthew McConaughey and fellow astronauts visit is a seemingly...
16 January 2022
Asteroids: how love, fear and greed will determine our future in space
... being an astrophysicist) but accessible (having the obligatory references to science fiction films such as Armageddon and Heinlein’s sci-fi book “The Man Who Sold the Moon”). On the more academic side, it comes complete with 33 pages...
20 May 2022
Outer Space - future for humankind issues of law and policy
... has come to expect from space law books, there is precious little in the way of illustration, beyond the sci-fi images of the introductory chapter and a valiant attempt to introduce the ‘visual ethic’ to a chapter on nuclear power and...
