A recent paper from researchers at Harvard University has put an interesting twist on one of humanity’s biggest questions; are we alone in the universe?
Sometimes the seemingly strange ideas are the best ones. To infini-pee and beyond!
Like a Woodstock for star nerds, over 2,000 international astronomers will descend on Cape Town for the first global astronomy gathering on African soil.
On Sunday, a privately owned Chinese space rocket met a fiery demise near a bustling city.
The clock is ticking as the capsule can only stay docked at the station for 45 days.
Japan is more focused on the idea of mysterious crafts being flown by enemies from China rather than little green men from Mars.
Researchers estimated the potential damage caused by the low-earth orbit internet satellites burning up in the atmosphere and releasing aluminium oxides.
Since it was launched out of the Earth’s atmosphere, Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster has travelled an unbelievable distance across space and time.
The mission is the sixth in the Chang’e moon exploration programme, which is named after a Chinese moon goddess.
Amidst a trove of glittering golden treasures from the Iberian Bronze Age, a pair of corroded objects, made with what researchers believe is metal from some far-flung place, may be the most precious of all.
The mission follows a series of delays, including a scrubbed launch attempt on May 6 due to a “buzzing” valve aboard the Atlas V rocket and a subsequent helium leak in the Starliner spacecraft.
The space elevator cable, which will stretch through the Earth’s atmosphere, will carry materials and people using wheeled lifts called “Climber”.
Night skies were lit up by these bright colour lights in locations where they don’t normally shine as a severe solar storm supercharged the phenomenon.
This new, immersive visualisation produced on a NASA supercomputer represents a scenario where a camera — a stand-in for a daring astronaut — enters the event horizon, sealing its fate.
As South Africa’s largest scientific infrastructure project of the last 30 years since democracy, MeerKAT has become a beacon of space innovation and opportunity on the African continent.
If Earth was the size of a marble, the edge of our solar system would be 11 kilometres away. That’s a lot of space to hide a planet.
This might be the only time that a mistake in understanding is considered exciting.
To understand what it might be like for humans to make it to the real Mars, and stick it out, behavioural ecologist Kelly Weinersmith gave her two cents.
The plan had been for Kairos – an ancient Greek word meaning “the right moment” – to put the satellite into orbit about 51 minutes after take-off.
First found in 2023, the exoplanet has a mass of 3.02 Earths and it takes 19.3 days to complete one orbit of its star.
Jeff Bezos’ rocket is going to need a bigger glans.
If Thursday’s landing attempt goes according to plan, Intuitive Machines could become the first company to pull off a successful touchdown on the lunar surface.
Pilot Jorge A. Arteaga captured the footage while flying over Antioquia, Colombia in 2022. It shows an unidentified object, which resembles a balloon, zooming past very clearly.
This is one of Cape Town’s best ‘uncommon’ experiences and one that the whole family will enjoy.
The giant rocket launched into space on the 8th of January and was headed towards the moon, but the mission unravelled very quickly and it has now been declared a huge failure.
A beam of cosmic energy so powerful that it carried the equivalent of hundreds of billions of volts of electricity hit Earth in 2021 and scientists are mystified by this for a couple of reasons.
By 2040, there could be more than one man on the moon.
Have you ever looked at the wonders of the James Webb Space Telescope and thought, ‘I wish I could do that’?
“Give me fuel! Give me fire!” the award-winning metal band sings on top of their characteristic guitar power chords.
“Our own Sun experienced a phase like this long ago, and now we have the technology to see the beginning of another’s star’s story.”