SpaceX vs Nasa: who will get us to the Moon first?...
Gareth Dorrian, University of Birmingham and Ian Whittaker, Nottingham Trent University
No-one has visited the Moon since 1972. But with the advent of commercial human...
Venus was once more Earth-like, but climate change made it uninhabitable
Richard Ernst, Carleton University
We can learn a lot about climate change from Venus, our sister planet. Venus currently has a surface temperature of 450℃...
SpaceX Starship prototype exploded, but it’s still a giant leap towards...
Hugh Hunt, University of Cambridge
Private company SpaceX launched SN8, a prototype of its Starship spacecraft, designed to go to the Moon and Mars, on...
‘WTF?’: newly discovered ghostly circles in the sky can’t be explained...
Ray Norris, Western Sydney University
In September 2019, my colleague Anna Kapinska gave a presentation showing interesting objects she’d found while browsing our new radio...
We’ve mapped a million previously undiscovered galaxies beyond the Milky Way.
Aidan Hotan, CSIRO
Astronomers have mapped about a million previously undiscovered galaxies beyond the Milky Way, in the most detailed survey of the southern sky...
Mars colony: how to make breathable air and fuel from brine...
David Rothery, The Open University
NASA is planning to land a crew on the Moon by 2024, and then onward to Mars, possibly in the...
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