Mars or Bust! InSight Lander probes the Red Planet.
Mars has just received its newest robotic resident. NASA’s Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) lander
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NASA will look for Martian life with 2020 Rover.
NASA has chosen Jezero Crater as the landing site for its upcoming Mars 2020 rover mission after a five year
Read MoreWas ‘Oumuamua’ a light sail probe visiting the Solar System? Dr. Avi Loeb chats.
Dr. Avi Loeb of Harvard University (as well as the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) does a little video about
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How To Invent Everything by Ryan North (book review).
The basis of Ryan North’s book, ‘How To Invent Everything’ is transporting yourself into the past by a time machine
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Goodbye Kepler, planet-hunter par excellence.
After nine years in deep space collecting data that indicate our sky to be filled with billions of hidden planets
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NASA 1958 Onwards: Operation Manual by David Baker (book review).
Contrary to the title, ‘NASA 1958 Onwards: Operation Manual’, the USA’s interest in space flight goes back as far as
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Seeing Science: An Illustrated Guide To The Wonders Of The Universe by Iris Gottlieb (book review).
My first thoughts when I opened Iris Gottlieb’s book, ‘Seeing Science: An Illustrated Guide To The Wonders Of The Universe’
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Fast, moves the robot legion.
Do you remember five years ago when robot manufacturer Boston Dynamics released those videos of their creation, Atlas, dangling from
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The Laser That’s Changing The World by Todd Neff (book review).
If you think lasers are only used in burglar alarms, then Todd Neff’s book, ‘The Laser That’s Changing The World’
Read MoreMoon discovered in another solar system (yes: it’s the first exomoon).
Using NASA’s Hubble and Kepler space telescopes, astronomers have uncovered tantalising evidence of what could be the first discovery of
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