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Some scientists are keen to send humans to Venus on a flyby.
NASA
Artemis I launch has been ‘scrubbed’ a couple of times now. Why is a launch window so important, and what does scrubbing mean, anyway?
SpaceX
Everyone celebrates the feats of engineering that go into space exploration – but without chemistry, astronauts wouldn’t even be able to breathe.
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Lunar mining and geopolitical squabbles are set to play key roles in humanity’s return to the Moon.
Artist’s concept of an Artemis astronaut picking up lunar dust.
NASA's Advanced Concepts Laboratory
Why is humanity going back to the Moon after 50 years? Because we can, and we should.
Artemis-1 on the launch pad at Kennedy Space Centre.
NASA
Will humans be back on the Moon by 2025? It depends on how well the imminent launch of Artemis-1 goes.
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In the void of interstellar space, the most distant emissary of humankind carries a message that will last for billions of years.
Space exploration is becoming a more feasible reality, prompting a need for international cooperation.
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A new publication clarifies how existing legal frameworks apply to space exploration and development. The McGill Manual also highlights the catastrophic implications of conflict in space.
Satellite imagery monitors environmental changes to inform agricultural decisions. Agricultural patterns are distinctly visible in this near-vertical false colour infrared photography of farmland south of Khartoum, Sudan.
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Technologies being developed for growing food in space have contributed to advances in agriculture and crops on Earth.
Realistic colour view of Jupiter’s moon Europa.
NASA/JPL-Caltech/SETI Institute
There may be life on Jupiter’s moon Europa or Saturn moon’s Enceladus.
Harvest Moon - October 1 2020.
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Take note, future colonisers: you may be able to grow stuff in certain places on the Moon.
The crew consisting of pilot Larry Connor of the United States, commander Michael López-Alegría of Spain and the United States, and mission specialists Mark Pathy and Eytan Stibbe from Canada and Israel.
Axiom Space
If the mission goes well, private company Axiom Space will move on to building a space station.
Australian Space Agency
In Australia, space defence gets billions of dollars in funding, and commercial projects get hundreds of millions. Space science gets only $2 million a year.
SpaceX
There has never been a dedicated mission sent to the “ice giants”, Uranus and Neptune. But there may be one on the horizon.
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How will they bring the structure back safely? And where will the surviving components crash?
ISAS / JAXA
The Hayabusa2 mission brought a piece of asteroid Ryugu back to Earth, where it has helped scientists resolve a long-standing puzzle.
Where 2020 XL5 would appear in the dawn sky if we could see it with the naked eye from Chile.
NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva
There may be many more asteroids in the same orbit as Earth, some of which we might be able to mine.
Artist’s conception
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Webb is NASA’s largest and most powerful ever space telescope – set to investigate the formation of the furthest galaxies from Earth.
Grand ideas of extraterrestrial colonisation are hardly new. In the 1940s, the nascent Space Age set in motion calls for a new wave of colonisation – directed outwards into space.
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Humanity as a whole owns the Solar System in a shared fashion. It cannot be claimed by one person, or one country, or one company.
We have only sent people to the Moon six times so far.
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A space station on the Moon could be built out of lunar concrete.