As the New Horizons probe makes history and comes the closest we have ever been to Pluto here’s ten interesting facts about the (dwarf) planet so you can sound informed.
This could be something big folks, something that changes the way a large percentage of the world uses the internet. Elon Musk isn’t aiming small with this one.
All those people that do those “a photo a day for a year” projects – this guy is beating you all because he is doing it from the International Space Station and you’re doing it from your bathroom.
So somewhere out there in the constantly expanding universe is a planet called Ceres. Scientists looking to find out more info on the planet have noticed something very much out of the ordinary.
Part human, part robot, full genius – Stephen Hawking has revealed what he thinks will signal the end of the human race and it’s not what you might expect.
I’m sure these Russian spacecrafts are packed full of all the essentials but you will be pretty surprised by what else these astronauts Putin.
A man calling himself a UFO hunter has observed some strange things happening on the International Space Station’s life feed. Conspiracy theories abound
We don’t often quote Buzz Lightyear around these parts, but when the little trooper said ‘to infinity and beyond’ he must have had these guys in mind. A car in space?
Truly, this guy is a genius. He must have had one hell of a Lego set when he was growing up. He also has five kids, so… you know… 15 year plan..?
A lot of planning goes in to landing something on a moving object. Now picture it being 317 million miles away, and doing it by remote. Anyway, they nailed it.
Matthew McCononaughey has picked a string of good movies of late, and this one looks set to keep the movement going. Watch Matt and Anne take on space.
This completely automatic space plane made its way home to earth last week. We’re not sure if it was secretly meeting with aliens or what, but it’s back.
Become part of the revolution of breaking the mould of the traditional working environment. This is a call for a new working world order!
Mark Shuttleworth is attempting to fight the South African Reserve Bank for R250 million that he had to pay. Rumour has it he is not happy about being the sole funder of Nkandla…
Distance is usually the necessary factor in gaining perspective on a situation that seems just too massive to cope with. Distance is exactly what astronauts in the International Space Station have and, unsurprisingly, their perspective is radical.
This interview gives us an amazing insight into what it is actually like to live in space for months at a time. It is pretty amazing to hear from these astronauts what life is actually like living in space. WOW!
Airplanes can be used for way more than purely transporting masses of people, as some people and business owners have shown to make incredible living spaces out of old planes and helicopters.
Astronomers try and convince Congress to give them more money to help discover life on other planets.
In Branson Behind the Mask, investigative reporter Tom Bower suggests Virgin Galactic may never achieve space flight. In all actuality there is little in Bower’s book that is not already known about Galactic’s dismal record so far. Branson is a sitting duck because he has so frequently over-promised on his bid to introduce so-called space tourism.
For astronauts, eating a simple pizza is out of the question, relegated to the memory of their good times back on Earth. For obvious reasons, those poor guys up there are stuck with canned and freeze-dried prepackaged foods. But things are looking up. Last year NASA hired a mechanical engineer to build a prototype of a […]
“Let’s send Kobus to Mars,” is something you will never hear coming out of NASA mission controller’s mouth. The likelihood that a South African would be chosen to go to space, let alone to form a human colony on Mars is not very strong. But through private and public funding, the Mars One Expedition may do just that.
Specifically, the weird rock appeared near the Mars Rover ‘Opportunity’, which has been exploring the red planet since 2004.
This new SpaceShipTwo rocket-powered test flight video documents the piloted vehicle’s flight on 10 January of this year, which set a company altitude record by reaching 71,000 feet (21,641 meters). SpaceShipTwo also attained a top speed of Mach 1.4, which is roughly 1,225 kph.
Alfonso Cuaron looks to have set a new mold for space-epic movies after directing ‘Gravity’, as Christopher Nolan looks to produce his very own space-epic called ‘Interstellar’. This time it’s about wormholes.
Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield paid tribute to Madiba on behalf of NASA, as he and many other astronauts took to twitter to share their condolences, and celebrate his life.
Could we ever truly live on Mars? The mind boggles at the thought of it – partially because so many questions remain unanswered. Will we be able to come back? Will we be able to breathe up there? It just seemed too implausible to truly happen. But doubt no longer, because we have confirmation from this here infographic that a Mars settlement mission is very much on the cards.
Well, we say ‘anybody’ – but by that we mean anybody who has R750,000 to spare on a trip to space. Yup, a small Arizona-based business, The Paragon Space Development Corporation, has used some existing technology to create a helium balloon that will take passengers to the edge of space.
South Africa is entering the space realm. The Denel Group is creating a high resolution, Earth observing satellite. The satellite will be called the EO-Sat1, and will be monitored by the South African National Space Agency.
On 6 September, NASA’s rocket Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) took off from Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. At the same time, a frog took one giant leap for amphibiankind and photobombed the whole thing. Take that, rocket ship.