Governments and corporations must get serious about the legal, technical, economic, social and ethical implications of a potential space-based resource economy.
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Delay has turned space mission ExoMars2020 into ExoMars2022.
The Earth and the Moon were long thought to be virtually identical in composition. Now we know they are not.
The InSights mission is producing the first evidence-based picture of Mars’s interior.
Sex technologies and ‘erobots’ could help address issues related to human desire, and physical and emotional needs of astronauts in space.
In preparation for possible future missions to Mars, scientists figure out how to quickly and efficiently measure brain performance and mental fatigue.
The Earth may be crawling with undiscovered creatures with a different biochemistry to life as we know it.
From alien life to human spaceflight, 2020 may deliver some exciting news.
The opportunities in space are limitless. But without a sustainable approach to the space industry, our ability to exploit them won’t be.
Musk’s plans have potentially dire consequences for alien life, astronauts and the environment.
The Canadian Long Range Plan 2020 for astronomy and astrophysics builds on Canadian research’s previous success to extend Canada’s role.
Current plans for lunar exploration may end up destroying ancient, genetic samples from Earth that have ended up on the moon.
It’s established Mars was once a planet with surface-level water. So with multiple MARS missions starting next year, the key to seeking out martian life may instead lie in the contents of its ‘dust’.
NASA and the European Space Agency are planning a series of lunar missions using tiny ‘CubeSats’ to map the moon for resources.
NASA’s Europa Clipper mission just got the green light - here’s what it could achieve.
By 2069, we could be seeing the start of regular journeys from the moon to Mars.
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The fifth episode of the To the moon and beyond podcast series explores where we will be travelling in 2069.
Any base on the moon would need very thick walls.
Australia played a vital role in beaming the Apollo 11 Moon landing to the world. But since then we’ve passed up the opportunity to cement our place in exploring outer space.
As more than a million people have indicated plans to partake in a citizen ‘raid’ on the famed Area 51 to ‘see them aliens,’ a scholar on the search for extraterrestrial life weighs in on the hype.
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Senior Lecturer in Physics, Nottingham Trent University
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Professor of Planetary and Space Sciences, The Open University
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Postdoctoral research associate, University of Oxford
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Professor of Planetary Geosciences, The Open University
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Associate Professor in Archaeology and Space Studies, Flinders University
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Lecturer in Astronomy, Nottingham Trent University
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Professor of Physics, Deputy Director (Solar System) at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory, UCL
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Professor (Astrophysics), University of Southern Queensland
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Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW
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Professor of Robotics, Head of Centre for Robotics Research, King's College London
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Professor of Planetary Science, University of Leicester
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Emeritus Professor of International Law, Western Sydney University
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Full Professor, Former Director, Institute of Air and Space Law, McGill University
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Senior Instrument Scientist, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation