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To understand what makes space exploration worthwhile, we need to look beyond rigid cost–benefit analysis.
Space inventions we all take for granted include everything from smartphone cameras to car sun shades. Plants are the next frontier.
As more satellites are launched into orbit, space agencies are looking at how to predict space weather events that could harm them.
Meteorites may be the only practical way to study Mercury’s surface directly.
From confinement to food, lessons learned behind bars could be key to surviving on the red planet.
Space exploration would have been poorer without the successes of Esa.
The space agency faces major competition from rising space powers such as China and India.
An aerospace engineer explains why NASA, Space Force and other agencies are using or testing aerobraking for more fuel-efficient spacecraft.
Scientists will have to check whether the samples contain living microbes before they can be safely studied.
Microbes could pump out oxygen on Mars.
3D printing in outer space and on alien planets comes with otherworldly challenges.
The chances of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth are small but fluctuating.
This unsung research area involves 3D-printing smart materials that can change shape when they come into contact with stimuli like heat or light.
According to astronomers, there are approximately 200 billion trillion stars in our observable universe — chances are, there’s life out there somewhere.
There’s been speculation that Donald Trump may cancel the Space Launch System rocket, which Nasa intended to use to get from the Moon to Mars.
The World Monuments Fund submission highlights that there are almost 100 sites on the Moon bearing traces of the human history of space exploration.
Nations will need to tread carefully on the Moon in order to avoid conflict.
Could humans expand out beyond their homeworld and establish settlements on the planet Mars? The idea of settling the red planet has been around for decades. However, it has been seen by sceptics as a…
NASA administrators have hard choices to make, but the outcomes are often out-of-this-world exciting.
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