In the past 10 years, international alliances on Earth have begun to expand into space. Nations with similar interests collaborate with one another while competing with other space blocs.
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Remote sensing satellites provide the crucial data that helps scientists model disasters so that they can work on predicting avalanche patterns in future.
What happens to the International Space Station when tensions on Earth rise? A space policy expert explains how the ISS is run and how Russian aggression has threatened its operation in the past – and now.
What did Mercury look like as BepiColombo swung by?
New results show why and how water is disappearing from Mars atmosphere.
Several current programs aim at sending humans back to the Moon. What would be the purpose, and what are the real prospects?
Advanced techniques allowed our research team to build an open database of billions of individual trees and challenge some common perceptions about vegetation in arid and semi-arid zones.
Many of people may have dreamed of becoming an astronaut since childhood, but do you have what it takes?
Over the coming decade, the arrival of constellations of small satellites will reshape the space industry. It constitutes a paradigm shift, particularly in terms of data gathering and processing.
Humans have been living on the International Space Station for two full decades. So what comes next for this ailing technology, and what does it mean for future International ventures in space?
Dr Shaun Murphy, Dr House, Dr Virginia Dixon are all great characters. But their reality doesn’t always chime with my own.
Empathy and scientific knowledge will be key for astronauts looking to travel to Mars.
Delay has turned space mission ExoMars2020 into ExoMars2022.
Collecting samples from Mars and brining them back to Earth will be a hugely complicated task, but it may be our best bet of finding alien life.
NASA’s Europa Clipper mission just got the green light - here’s what it could achieve.
This hot, acidic neighbor with its surface veiled in thick clouds hasn’t benefited from the attention showered on Mars and the Moon. But Venus may offer insights into the fate of the Earth.
On the 50th anniversary of man’s historic moon landing, Pedro Duque remembers how every child wanted to be an astronaut in 1969.
For the first time, an instrument orbiting Mars and a rover on the surface have detected methane simultaneously – raising hopes for finding life on the red planet.
An academic describes the career high of working on the most successful mission to Mars, and the little rover that made it possible.
Rovers including ‘Rosalind Franklin’ will pick up where Opportunity left off – trying to answer the question of whether there is, or ever has been, life on Mars.
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Professor of Planetary and Space Sciences, The Open University
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Professor of Physics, Deputy Director (Solar System) at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory, UCL
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Professor of Planetary Geosciences, The Open University
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Senior Lecturer in Environmental Science and Planetary Exploration, University of Stirling
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Post Doctoral Research Fellow in Space Science, University of Birmingham
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ARC Laureate Fellow and Winthrop Research Professor at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, UWA., The University of Western Australia
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Senior Lecturer in Physics, Nottingham Trent University
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Professor of Strategy and Security Studies, Air University
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Senior Lecturer in Social Policy, Lancaster University
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Senior Curator (Astronomy), Museums Victoria and Honorary Fellow at University of Melbourne, Museums Victoria Research Institute
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Research Associate, The Open University
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Professor of Aerospace Medicine and Rehabilitation, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Research Fellow/Reader in Planetary Physics, Lancaster University
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Professor of Astrophysics Education, The Open University
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Senior Lecturer in Classical Studies, The Open University
