E.T. just ain’t there, says new research.
Sensitive new telescopes now permit astronomers to detect waste heat expected to be a signature of advanced alien civilisations that
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Beyond books: Jeff Bezos invests millions in new spacecraft factory.
Amazon billionaire and Lex Luthor-alike Jeff Bezos is creating a massive new next-gen rocket factory in Florida via his Blue
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Saturn’s moon Enceladus – new ocean discovered!
Get your space scuba gear on, because a global ocean has just been discovered beneath the icy crust of Saturn’s
Read MoreOccupy Mars – a promise, not a protest.
In this amazing interview, astronaut Buzz Aldrin talks about how humanity is currently planning to occupy Mars and colonise it,
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The Secret Life Of Space by Heather Couper and Nigel Henbest (book review)
Oddly, when you bear in mind that both Heather Couper and Nigel Henbest are astronomers/astrophysicists, their latest book, ‘The Secret
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Numbers: Their Tales, Types And Treasures by Alfred S. Posamentier & Bernd Thaller (book review)
Numbers. You can’t live without them and I suspect even those of you who don’t see yourselves as numerate can
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Making everything magnetic?
Scientists have demonstrated for the first time how to generate magnetism in metals that are not naturally magnetic, which could
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NASA’s Spitzer confirms closest rocky exoplanet.
Using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have confirmed the discovery of the nearest rocky planet outside our solar system, larger
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NASA’s Kepler Mission discovers Earth’s older cousin.
NASA’s Kepler mission has confirmed the first near-Earth-size planet in the “habitable zone” around a sun-like star. This discovery and
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NASA Gemini: 1965-1966 (All Missions, All Models) Owners’ Workshop Manual by David Woods and David M. Harland (book review).
NASA’s Gemini programme was needed if they were to fulfil President John F. Kennedy’s order to get American astronauts on
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