The spacecraft Cassini was tasked with investigating Saturn in more detail and undertook missions to find out more about the planet and its many moons. It officially finished its most recent mission last month (September […]
There seems to be a new space race on the horizon
However, unlike before, the race is not fuelled by the cold war rivalry between the USA and the USSR, it is fuelled by private corporations. Investment is flooding into the space industry. The global space […]
Student Advice’s Space to Relax: perfect for exam time
The Student Advice Centre’s Space to Relax is returning to provide you with a wellbeing hub during the often stressful and challenging exam period. We want support you to study and support you to look […]
Mars: To boldly go where no man has gone before
For as long as human history, people have looked up to the heavens and wondered. Among the many celestial fascinations that the night sky offers us, few have caught the human imagination so much as […]
Flawed Dreams: Elon Musk and the Colonisation of Mars
At the International Astronautical Congress in Mexico, Elon Musk announced his highly ambitious plans to establish a colony of one million people on Mars within 100 years. Musk was greeted rapturous energy. Despite this enthusiasm, […]
Astronomy and Astrophysics: 2 weeks in 3 minutes
[ht_fancy_title color=”colordefault” title=”A selection of interesting developments in astronomy and astrophysics from the past couple of weeks”] [ht_heading style=”” title=”The Year Ahead in Planetary Exploration” type=”h1″ font_size=”” text_align=”left” margin_top=”30″ margin_bottom=”30″ color=””] This year is set […]
Strange tales from outer space
When I was little, there was a patch of grass at the bottom of my garden where nothing would grow. It was a big round patch of black, scorched ground where, it turned out, my […]
TV | Live in Space – Out of this world
It is perhaps unsurprising that Channel 4 should be the first to produce a TV show in space, given its track record of filming the dangerously absurd. It seems there’s very little left on earth […]
Books |An astronaut’s guide to life on earth
It’s not often that you get an insight into a job so far removed from everyday life that it literally happens off planet. Chris Hadfield is a man who has done it all – alongside […]
Science | Human settlement on Mars by 2023, would you take the one way trip?
The red planet, commemorating the roman god of war, may cause many people to visualise a dry, arid landscape composed primarily of silicate rocks, complete with craters, volcanoes, deserts and an overall inhospitable environment, however […]
Did Curiosity kill the Moon?
On July 20th, 1969 Commander Neil Armstrong and Lunar module pilot Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin became the first humans to land on the Moons’ surface and in doing so became immortalized in Earth’s history. This was […]
Voting from space
As we all saw from Tuesday’s US presidential election, every vote counts. With “absentee” American’s casting their vote early by post or in person, how could the few that are not even on Earth cast […]