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Space
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Close Call In The Cosmos: Astronaut Recalls Near-Drowning Experience In Space
07 Oct 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
Just an hour after the extravehicular activity started, Parmitano felt a strange sensation in his spacesuit.
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Minister Of Tourism Keen For Greater Focus On Astro-Tourism, Especially In The Western Cape
03 Oct 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
With the aim of elevating South Africa’s status on the global tourism stage, Minister of Tourism Patricia de Lille has unveiled an exciting new focus: astro-tourism.
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SpaceX Will Launch Five Missions to Mars In The Next Two Years
02 Oct 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
“Eventually, there will be thousands of Starships going to Mars and it will a glorious sight to see!” Maybe fix the Cybertruck issues first.
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Earth Is About To Get A Second Moon, But Only For A Short While
19 Sep 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
While this may not be the first time we’ve seen something like this happen, it is still a fun phenomenon.
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NASA Announces Record-Breaking Number Of Humans In Space
17 Sep 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
It’s the largest group living in space concurrently in history.
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Four Civilians On SpaceX Mission Complete The First Ever Commercial Spacewalk [Video]
13 Sep 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
The mission has already set several records, travelling farther into space than any human since NASA’s Apollo program concluded more than 50 years ago.
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Inside Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin Factory Crafting The Future of Reusable Rockets [Video]
09 Sep 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
Kudos to this YouTuber for getting a tour with Bezos as his guide considering how closed-door this company has been.
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A NASA Spacecraft Collision Might Have Caused A Meteor Shower That Will Last For 100 Years
04 Sep 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
New research suggests fragments of Dimorphos will arrive in Earth and Mars’ neighbourhood within one to three decades,
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You’re Not Going To Believe It But A Startup Wants To Sell You Sunlight At Night From Space
28 Aug 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
They’re doing it by sending a big mirror into space, aboard a satellite that’s able to point said mirror in such a way as to reflect the sun’s light onto a precise location on Earth.
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Eastern Cape Folks Awed By Meteorite Swishing Across The Sky [Video]
26 Aug 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
The ground shook, the sky sparked, and some locals were left with bated breath, wondering if it was an earthquake or a meteorite.
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Supercomputer Figures Out Recipe For Otherworldly ‘Superdiamonds’ Harder Than Any Known Material
31 Jul 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
The world’s fastest supercomputer has just come up with a recipe to forge superdiamonds here on Earth when they likely only exist in the cores of giant exoplanets.
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Harvard Researchers Suggest Aliens Could Be “Walking Among Us”
16 Jul 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
A recent paper from researchers at Harvard University has put an interesting twist on one of humanity’s biggest questions; are we alone in the universe?
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‘One Giant Pee For Mankind’ – Spacesuits That Recycle Astronauts’ Urine Are Now A Reality
15 Jul 2024 by Maya-Rose Torrao / No Comments
Sometimes the seemingly strange ideas are the best ones. To infini-pee and beyond!
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Cape Town Will Host A Global Astronomy Gathering Next Month
12 Jul 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Like a Woodstock for star nerds, over 2,000 international astronomers will descend on Cape Town for the first global astronomy gathering on African soil.
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Chinese Rocket Crashes After ‘Accidental’ Launch, Sending Locals Scurrying [Video]
01 Jul 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
On Sunday, a privately owned Chinese space rocket met a fiery demise near a bustling city.
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Astronauts Are Stuck In Space After Boeing’s Starliner Issues Delay Return ‘Indefinitely’
24 Jun 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
The clock is ticking as the capsule can only stay docked at the station for 45 days.
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Japanese Authorities Trying To Determine If Recent UFO Sightings Are A Threat
21 Jun 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
Japan is more focused on the idea of mysterious crafts being flown by enemies from China rather than little green men from Mars.
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Scientists Warning That Elon Musk’s Starlink Satellites Could Damage The Ozone Layer
19 Jun 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
Researchers estimated the potential damage caused by the low-earth orbit internet satellites burning up in the atmosphere and releasing aluminium oxides.
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You Can Track Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster That Was Shot Into Space Six Years Ago
12 Jun 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
Since it was launched out of the Earth’s atmosphere, Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster has travelled an unbelievable distance across space and time.
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Amidst A Growing Rivalry With The US, A Chinese Spacecraft Landed On The Moon
03 Jun 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
The mission is the sixth in the Chang’e moon exploration programme, which is named after a Chinese moon goddess.
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Metal From Beyond Our Planet Found In Ancient Treasure Stash Stokes Researchers
31 May 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
Amidst a trove of glittering golden treasures from the Iberian Bronze Age, a pair of corroded objects, made with what researchers believe is metal from some far-flung place, may be the most precious of all.
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Maiden Human Test Flight Of Boeing’s Starliner Spacecraft Set For Tomorrow
31 May 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
The mission follows a series of delays, including a scrubbed launch attempt on May 6 due to a “buzzing” valve aboard the Atlas V rocket and a subsequent helium leak in the Starliner spacecraft.
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You Could Take A Trip In A Space Elevator Sooner Than You Might Think
20 May 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
The space elevator cable, which will stretch through the Earth’s atmosphere, will carry materials and people using wheeled lifts called “Climber”.
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In Case You Missed The Southern Lights Show On Full Display Over Parts Of South Africa On Friday [Images]
13 May 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
Night skies were lit up by these bright colour lights in locations where they don’t normally shine as a severe solar storm supercharged the phenomenon.
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NASA Releases New Visualisation Of What It Would Be Like To Be Swallowed By A Black Hole [Video]
09 May 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
This new, immersive visualisation produced on a NASA supercomputer represents a scenario where a camera — a stand-in for a daring astronaut — enters the event horizon, sealing its fate.
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The Karoo Telescope That’s Transformed Our Understanding Of The Cosmos
23 Apr 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
As South Africa’s largest scientific infrastructure project of the last 30 years since democracy, MeerKAT has become a beacon of space innovation and opportunity on the African continent.
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Scientists Say They Have Found New Evidence Of An Unknown Planet In Our Solar System
19 Apr 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
If Earth was the size of a marble, the edge of our solar system would be 11 kilometres away. That’s a lot of space to hide a planet.
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James Webb Telescope’s Newest Find Suggests We’ve Misunderstood The Universe
16 Apr 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
This might be the only time that a mistake in understanding is considered exciting.
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NASA Wants Human Guinea Pigs To Test Out Life On Mars
18 Mar 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
To understand what it might be like for humans to make it to the real Mars, and stick it out, behavioural ecologist Kelly Weinersmith gave her two cents.
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Watch The Space One Rocket Explode After Launching In Japan [Video]
14 Mar 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
The plan had been for Kairos – an ancient Greek word meaning “the right moment” – to put the satellite into orbit about 51 minutes after take-off.
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