04 February 2018
Worlds Fantastic, Worlds Familiar: A Guided Tour of the Solar System
... on space and astronomy will probably not get much out of this one. The text, interspersed as it is with science fiction references and other popular story-telling devices, is well-written and should be accessible to those already interested...
29 March 2018
Mapping the Heavens
... were fuzzy blobs, there was no proof of exoplanets and the idea of landing a spacecraft on an asteroid was pure science fiction! According to its publicity, this book provides “a tour of the ‘greatest hits’ of cosmological discoveries - the ideas...
15 June 2020
The Contact Paradox
...that an index will be included, which would lift the book from being simply interesting to being useful. As science fiction author Stephen Baxter states in his Foreword, “If SETI succeeds, first contact will probably be a moment of crucial importance...
24 November 2021
NASA successfully launches its DART mission
... focus on the crater left by DART’s collision and a precise determination of Dimorphos’ mass. “DART is turning science fiction into science fact and is a testament to NASA’s proactivity and innovation for the benefit of all,” said NASA Administrator...
June 2015
The real Interstellar: space travel theories from Tsiolkovsky to wormholes
... element of any interstellar travel project is the concept behind the propulsion unit. As for the payload, science fiction alone gives us a wealth of possibilities, including very detailed possibilities, of what it can ultimately be. The technology...
September 2016
Moon or Mars - how logical is NASA’s next step?
... We are now at the point where the line between science fiction and real life is seeming more blurred. Celestial mining is... and expansionism? Harris Innes-Miller is a political science undergraduate honours student at McGill University in Montreal, ...
