Properly addressing the problem of space requires work across three fronts: technology, policy and philosophy.
- Associate Professor in Archaeology and Space Studies, Flinders University
A piece of a suspected rocket found on fire in Western Australia highlights the growing problem of space junk – and how humanity is dealing with it.
Earth is the only home humans have ever known. But that might not be the case for much longer.
The Soviet Union launched Kosmos 482 towards Venus in 1972. But all didn’t go to plan.
Onde os astronautas guardam seus produtos de higiene pessoal? Para que serve todo esse velcro? Aqui está o que aprendemos ao fazer a arqueologia da Estação Espacial Internacional.
Where do astronauts keep their toiletries? What’s with all the velcro? Here’s what we learned from doing archaeology on the International Space Station.
Alice B. Toklas and her partner, the influential modernist writer Gertrude Stein, hosted a celebrated Paris salon. Toklas would go on to write an unusual bestseller.
Plan your summer reading or catch up on what you missed with The Conversation’s selection of the best books of the year.
Sixty years ago, philosopher Hannah Arendt argued an interplanetary perspective may be bad news for humanity as we know it.
A new book explores a paradox: women have been excluded from Australian science for many social and political reasons, but were also present and active in it from its earliest days.
A new photo taken on the Artemis I mission shows Earth isn’t a sealed spaceship, but is in dynamic interchange with the cosmos.
In the void of interstellar space, the most distant emissary of humankind carries a message that will last for billions of years.
In the excitement, it’s easy to forget the James Webb Space Telescope’s namesake has been the subject of controversy.
To a 17-year-old girl fresh out of convent school, Anaïs Nin’s diaries were a revelation. Nin found the words to describe inner worlds.
When a hunk of space junk smashes into the Moon in a few weeks, it will join a long history of lunar collisions.
NASA is backing four commercial space station projects. The newcomers may find they have much to learn about how people really live in space.
Next month, Russia is sending a director and actor to film in space. What does this mean for filmmakers, astronauts, movie fans and the International Space Station?
It’s 60 years since Gagarin’s world-first return from space. The cosmonaut never did make it to Australia, but his huge feat was celebrated here by many, despite tensions with the USSR.
The strange journey of Ham the chimpanzee from a rainforest in Cameroon to the edge of space.
After two decades as a home to astronauts, the International Space Station still has plenty to teach us about how humans can live away from Earth.
When it comes to managing the tussle for resources on the Moon, we might take lessons from New Zealand environmental law and TikTok ‘witches’.
Women are in many ways ideal astronauts, but the world of space has been designed for men.
Leila Waddell entered the world stage as an acclaimed violinist - and left it having influenced magical practice into the 21st century.
Just 12 people stepped on the Moon during the Apollo missions, but they left more than just footprints. It’s a legacy that needs protecting from damage by any future Moon missions.
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Episode two of To the moon and beyond, a podcast series marking the 50th anniversary of the moon landings.
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