China’s Space Race
July 21, 2021
Ever since the United States edged ahead in the space race against the Soviet Union in the 1960s and 70s they became the dominant player in space, and have remained leaders in the field ever...Read More
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Ingenuity: The Little Helicopter That Could
June 18, 2021
When NASA’s Perseverance rover safely touched down on the red planet in early 2021, it wasn’t alone. It was carrying a passenger, safely stowed under the belly of the rover. That passenger was...Read More
Supermoons and Eclipses 2021
May 20, 2021
Whenever supermoons and eclipses make the news, people’s interest in the night sky soars. Big and bright in all its visible phases, the Moon (Earth’s closest neighbour in space) is difficult...Read More
NASA regains access to space from US soil
May 7, 2021
In the early morning hours of 21 July 2011, NASA’s space shuttle Atlantis landed at the Kennedy shuttle landing complex in Florida. It may have looked like a standard space shuttle landing, but...Read More
James Web Space Telescope – The Successor of Hubble
April 15, 2021
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is set to launch on October 31st of this year, marking the start an exciting new era in telescope technology and space exploration. The result of decades of...Read More
A Success in Perseverance
March 12, 2021
After a 6-month, 480,000,000-kilometre journey through deep space, NASA’s Perseverance rover finally reached Mars in the morning hours of February 19th, 2021. It endured the entire EDL (Entry,...Read More
Humans Persevere to Mars
February 4, 2021
Mark your calendars! February 19 will be a day to remember, as NASA’s most advanced rover ever built, Perseverance, heads for the surface of Mars. In just a few short weeks, people all over the...Read More
The Great Conjunction 2020: The closest in 400 years
December 8, 2020
Do you remember what you were doing 20 years ago? That’s how long it’s been since Jupiter and Saturn were as close together in our night sky as they will appear this month. This planetary...Read More
Landing on an asteroid
November 9, 2020
Why has a team from NASA just spent more than two years looking for the ideal parking spot on an asteroid called Bennu? Find out why the OSIRIS-REX mission is so important and what scientists are...Read More
Mars is ready for its close-up in 2020!
October 2, 2020
Mars Opposition 2020 In the skies above us, the planets orbit at different rates. Sometimes those orbits align to give us a close-up view of something special and over the next couple of months...Read More