NASA has now formally started to pack its bags for the next big discovery mission, this time heading to Jupiter’s icy moon Europa. Last month NASA announced the instruments that will fly on this trip and…
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The turbocharged capitalism of private space flight is strangely at odds with the brotherly, generous global consensus that built the legal framework for extra-terrestrial travel.
Giant balloons are a lot cheaper than rockets launchers in getting scientific equipment to the edge of space. But they don’t always fly to plan.
It’s urgent that we turn our attention to a high definition space telescope that will allow us to directly image exoplanets.
After ten years in space NASA probe will get up close and personal with Mercury a final time.
Approaching Ceres, the Dawn spacecraft reveals the dwarf planet in colour for the first time.
Whatever America’s exact strategy in space, it doesn’t seem to involve investing in a new International Space Station
NASA’s latest mission to the International Space Station is going to study muscle wasting, among other things. Here’s what they hope to find out.
The aurora borealis lights up the Arctic night skies. Also called the Northern Lights, the phenomenon is the result of beams of charged particles tracing along the Earth’s magnetic field and entering the…
Like many a scientist before me, I have spent this week trying to grow a crystal. I wasn’t fussy, it didn’t have to be a single crystal – a smush of something would have done – just as long as it had a…
It was an exciting year in space exploration, with mind-blowing triumphs and heart-breaking failures. On Earth, new rockets and spacecraft were tested by space agencies and commercial ventures. SpaceX…
While the Mars Rovers and the Rosetta spacecraft will continue to make headlines in 2015, the stage is set for the solar system’s next great mission – the Pluto-bound New Horizons. Discovered in 1930…
NASA has revealed that a whiff of methane has been detected twice in the last couple of years at the Martian surface by the Curiosity Rover. The source of the methane is uncertain. It is not even clear…
After a 24-hour delay due to bad weather, the first test launch of the Orion spacecraft by NASA is underway with the ultimate goal of putting human beings on Mars. Weeks after the landing on a comet by…
To date, all human economic activity has depended on the material and energy resources of a single planet; understandably, perhaps. It is conceivable though that future advances in space exploration could…
“All systems go!” I said cautiously with a long sigh of relief. I had approved plans for the first soil analysis that would give humankind clues to the past and future habitability of Mars. One small word…
When in 1873 Jules Verne published his novel of planet-trotting high adventure, the world was on the verge of an explosion in global travel. New trans-continental railways and the Suez canal promised an…
It is three years since the final flight of the US space shuttle programme, during which time NASA has had to rely on the Russians, its allies, in space at least, to ferry astronauts and supplies between…
After a four-year competition, NASA has announced it has selected Boeing and SpaceX to take astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS). The contract - worth US$6.8 billion - was announced as part…
Research by NASA scientists suggests that distant planets that share Earth-like qualities may use friction to move from volatile…
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Post Doctoral Research Fellow in Space Science, University of Birmingham
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Associate Professor in Archaeology and Space Studies, Flinders University
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Professor of Planetary and Space Sciences, The Open University
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Senior Lecturer in Physics, Nottingham Trent University
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University Distinguished Professor of Astronomy, University of Arizona
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Professor of Strategy and Security Studies, Air University
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Professor (Astrophysics), University of Southern Queensland
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Sterrenkenner, History & Philosophy of Science, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Planetary Geosciences, The Open University
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Associate Professor of Earth and Planetary Science, Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis
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Associate Professor of International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology
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Professor of Hypersonic Aerodynamics, The University of Queensland
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Assistant Professor of Space and International Relations, Johns Hopkins University
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Senior Instrument Scientist, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
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Senior Curator (Astronomy), Museums Victoria and Honorary Fellow at University of Melbourne, Museums Victoria Research Institute
