25 January 2016
Helen Keen Presents a Humorous Look at How Science Fiction Inspires Space Science
Award-winning comedy writer Helen Keen delves into the history of spaceflight from a humorous point of view (TEDxESA).
07 September 2018
ANA/JAXA plan to revolutionise space with real-world Avatars
...the film of the same name might be a thing of science fiction, but a collaboration between ANA HOLDINGS and the Japan Aerospace... Exploration Agency (JAXA) are bringing the idea into science fact as they intend to use real-world Avatars to ...
24 October 2018
New constellations for Fermi's 10th birthday
... mapped out 21 new constellations from gamma-ray sources based on characters and famous objects with a science, or science-fiction theme to mark Fermi’s 10th year of operations. “Developing these unofficial constellations was a fun way to highlight...
09 January 2019
New self-driving rovers being tested for Mars
... populated solely by robots sounds like a story from a science fiction novel, but, as far as we know it, that’s...centre here on our planet. This means that any free-roaming science laboratories (rovers) are limited to travelling only a few dozen metres...
12 June 2020
New Horizon breaks record with first interstellar parallax experiment
...These photographs of Proxima Centauri and Wolf 359 – stars that are well-known to amateur astronomers and science fiction aficionados alike – employ the largest distance between viewpoints ever achieved in 180 years of stereoscopy!” If you've enjoyed...
18 January 2021
New study looks at how to harness energy from a black hole
... to support the needs of an advanced civilisation. Mining energy from black holes may sound like the stuff of science fiction, but it is in fact one of Einstein’s more fanciful-sounding predictions from his theory of General Relativity. Over the...
