Technologies being developed for growing food in space have contributed to advances in agriculture and crops on Earth.
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New data may settle dispute about the universe’s true expansion rate.
A digest of the week’s coverage of the war against Ukraine.
The European space agency will need both a launch vehicle and a lander platform to launch its ExoMars rover without help from Russia.
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.
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.
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Professor of Planetary and Space Sciences, The Open University
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Professor of Planetary Geosciences, 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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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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Professor of Astrophysics at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of Strategy and Security Studies, Air University
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Senior Instrument Scientist, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
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Associate Professor, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
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Research Associate, The Open University
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Electronic Imaging, The Open University
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Professor of Astrophysics Education, The Open University
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Honorary Fellow of the University of Melbourne and Senior Curator (Astronomy), Museums Victoria
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Adjunct Faculty, History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Melbourne, The University of Melbourne
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