Rockets-to-electric cars billionaire Elon Musk continued to mesmerise during September in his role as chief designer and overall boss of SpaceX. This was despite suffering much criticism and bad press over his ill-judged Twitter declarations – actions he would...
SpaceX has announced that it is to take human space travellers around the Moon in 2023. The original plan was to send two passengers on a Falcon 9 Heavy-launched dragon spacecraft, but this was dropped after SpaceX decided to concentrate on the BFR (now more politely...
Paul Spudis, lunar and planetary geologist, has passed away after suffering lung cancer. He was in his mid-sixties. Having graduated in planetary geology and gained a PhD, Spudis initially worked for the US Geological survey before moving onto NASA’s planetary...
While the original space race between superpowers – the USA and Soviet Union during the 1960s – was effectively ended with NASA’s successful Apollo Moon landings (1969-1972), a new “Great Space Race” has begun again, and this time more nations are...
While the old politically incorrect joke about a stupid country (insert a preferred nation) attempting a space mission to land on the Sun (they were going to go at night) might be intentionally ridiculous, NASA is attempting to do something close. After a one-day...
Radar data collected by ESA’s 15-year-old Mars Express spacecraft’s MARSIS instrument has revealed a 20km-wide lake of salty water under 1.5km of ice at the South Pole of Mars. The lake is said to be similar to Lake Vostok, which lies 4km under the South Pole. While...
