On a cloudless night in August, a lawn chair offered a simple vantage point for watching the sky. It was the peak of the Perseid meteor shower, when as many as 100
On a cloudless night in August, a lawn chair offered a simple vantage point for watching the sky. It was the peak of the Perseid meteor shower, when as many as 100
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Ever since childhood, I’ve wanted to be abducted by Aliens ~ Neil DeGrasse Tyson I recently read the book “Take Me to Your Leader: Perspectives on Your First Alien Encounter” (Simon Schuster:
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India’s space programme is entering a new phase, but a difficult question is emerging alongside its ambitions: can the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) be expected to concentrate on the country’s most
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China’s commercial space industry is no longer simply trying to put satellites into orbit. It is beginning to sell what comes after launch: complete systems, operational support, training and practical applications. A
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Forty-five years ago, Mel Brooks imagined a comic future in which ultra-Orthodox Jewish astronauts protected the Jewish people from gentiles. At the end of his 1981 film History of the World, Part
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by Eric Chris A. Rutkowski’s Canada’s UFO Secrets: Disclosing Government Files on What Is Happening in Our Skies is most interesting when it stops behaving like a UFO book. Its real subject
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The United States’ ambitious Golden Dome missile-defence initiative is approaching a critical point, with its senior military leader expressing confidence in the programme’s ability to deliver its planned capabilities within a stated
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A discarded upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has left a newly formed crater on the Moon after crashing into the lunar surface, with South Korea’s Danuri lunar orbiter providing
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Astronomers are developing an ambitious new European-led telescope that could reveal vast regions of the universe that have remained largely invisible to science, offering an unprecedented view of galaxies hidden behind cosmic
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When the first image from Taiwan’s newly launched Formosat-8A satellite finally appeared on computer screens inside the Taiwan Space Agency’s control room, it marked the end of years of uncertainty for the
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