23 March 2026
Alien Earths: Planet Hunting in the Cosmos
... distance of “nearly nine thousand cookies”! Continuing an apparent food theme, we also find the author asking her students “Could this banana be an alien?”, which is an interesting method of sparking her audience’s thought processes. Indeed, we hear...
23 March 2026
Introduction to Space Law (Fifth Edition)
... book, which, according to its preface, presents to students and the general public “an idea of the rules and... to an intelligent reader, while providing for serious space law students the plethora of footnote references so beloved by lawyers. As one...
July 2014
Is there a space race or are India and China just coming of age?
... tend to be lucrative. Indirectly, countries often hope that investing in their space programmes will inspire their students to study science and technology fields, eventually spurring their economies, and that other locally-made technology ...
July 2014
A revitalised space sector reduces costs and makes space data more accessible
... applied to the ESA Business Incubator Centre (BIC) at Harwell Oxford after winning a ‘hackathon’-style event for students called Future Business Pre-Incubator. However, to transform its idea into a commercial business, the fledgling company...
December 2014
Technology drives space exploration: we won’t make it to Mars without investment
... that may enable spaceflight capabilities that were previously unattainable. NASA is working to engage citizen scientists, Makers, students, industry and the general public in our work through a variety of programmes, including prizes and challenges...
December 2014
Before Rosetta: Svetlana Gerasimenko’s story
... not an unusual profession and there was stiff competition to join the faculty. I was a first year PhD student when we made a field trip to Almaty to observe short period comets. Klim Churyumov was the head of the...
