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Space Exploration
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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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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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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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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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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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Toyota Goes ‘Full Moon’ With New Baby Landcruiser Moon Buggy
09 Oct 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
All these designs may still be pie-in-the-sky ideas, but the innovation that goes into these concept cars often results in real-world improvements for those who drive their cars on planet Earth, so let the techies play.
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India Announces Sun Research Mission Days After Successful Moon Landing
29 Aug 2023 by Maya-Rose Torrao / No Comments
The nation’s ability to adapt and refine existing technology, combined with its wealth of skilled engineers operating at lower wages compared to international counterparts, have been driving factors in India’s success.
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Enormous Structure Found Hiding Under The Surface Of The Moon
04 Aug 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
Planetary scientists discovered a structure that weighs approximately 2.18 billion billion kilograms, and stretches for more than 300 kilometers in depth.
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Make Yourself Feel Really Puny With NASA’s New Black Hole Video
03 May 2023 by Tayla / No Comments
Black holes are so massive that not even light can escape, which is how you know you’re basically nothing in comparison.
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James Webb Telescope Captures Rarely Seen Moment Of A Dying Star [Images]
15 Mar 2023 by Tayla / No Comments
Supernovas have been captured before. But the singular moment right before the star dies has never been seen before the way it has now.
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“It’s Bananas” – JWST Found Small Red Dot Shaking Up Understanding Of Galaxy Formation
27 Feb 2023 by Tayla / No Comments
While scanning a region of the cosmos near the Big Dipper, a group of astronomers identified something that has pretty much blown their minds.
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Karoo For The Win – Matjiesfontein Assisting NASA In Getting Humans Back To The Moon
11 Jan 2023 by Tayla / No Comments
It’s a big win for the Karoo that the South African National Space Agency (SANSA) and NASA have renewed their partnership in lunar exploration.
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Why Astronomers Are Revisiting An ‘Alien Signal’ From 1977
29 Jun 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
Jerry Ehman had his ear to the universe on August 15, 1977, working on the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence programme, or SETI, when he heard a very interesting signal.
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Chinese Scientists Reckon They Might Have Found A Sign Of Extraterrestrial Life
15 Jun 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
China’s massive ‘Sky Eye’ FAST telescope, the world’s largest alien-hunting radio telescope, seems to have picked up a strange signal which could suggest that there is indeed life beyond Earth.
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NASA’s Upcoming Mission Will Send A Venus Probe Through “Planetary Hell”
06 Jun 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
Scientists at NASA are curious to see if the second planet from the Sun ever housed any life before, especially considering how similar it is to Earth.
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NASA’s Mars Lander Battled Martian Dust To Snap Its Final Selfie
26 May 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
The stationary spacecraft captured its last selfie on April 24, showing just how enveloped its solar panels have become by the planet’s relentless dust.
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Worry For NASA After Ingenuity Helicopter And Perseverance Rover Lose Contact
10 May 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
The little chopper is supposed to send regular data to its buddy Perseverance but missed one of the scheduled communications sessions last week.
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These Odd Mars Photos Actually Have Straightforward Explanations
03 Aug 2021 by Tayla / No Comments
It’s fun to speculate about the weird things that cameras have managed to capture on Mars and send back to Earth, but often there is a perfectly good, scientific explanation for it all.
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They’ve Detected Some Rumbling From Deep Within Mars
07 Apr 2021 by Tayla / No Comments
There’s been some mysterious rumbling coming from inside Mars. Scientists, with the help of the InSight Lander, are busy figuring out what it could mean.
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Historic NASA Photos Up For Auction
10 Nov 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
Christie’s is auctioning off images from those first few years of space exploration, captured when photography was still analogue.
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NASA’s Latest Video Should Inspire The Next Generation Of Astronauts [Video]
20 Nov 2018 by Carrie / No Comments
In a new video, NASA has announced their plans to establish a permanent human presence on the moon, followed by the first man on Mars.
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Billionaire Bigelow Reveals His Plan To Sell Hotel Reservations In Space
21 Feb 2018 by Sloane Hunter / No Comments
Another billionaire has announced his plans to commercialise space, this time with inflatable modules that form a private space station.
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Here’s The Video Elon Musk Tweeted Of His Rocket Landing On A Tiny Boat In The Middle Of The Ocean [Mental]
11 Apr 2016 by Sloane Hunter / No Comments
Perhaps showing the lighter side of Elon Musk, you would think the track in the video was made for this exact moment.
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So This Billionaire Is Making It His Business To Find Aliens
21 Jul 2015 by Kiernan / No Comments
Humans have always been fascinated with the search for extraterrestrial life, although usually they don’t have a few billion dollars lying around to dig deeper. Enter this guy.
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Guys, Check Out These Strange Lights Shining From A Planet Called Ceres
26 Feb 2015 by Kiernan / No Comments
So somewhere out there in the constantly expanding universe is a planet called Ceres. Scientists looking to find out more info on the planet have noticed something very much out of the ordinary.
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Everything You Need To Know About The First Human Colony On Mars [INFOGRAPHIC]
30 Oct 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
Could we ever truly live on Mars? The mind boggles at the thought of it – partially because so many questions remain unanswered. Will we be able to come back? Will we be able to breathe up there? It just seemed too implausible to truly happen. But doubt no longer, because we have confirmation from this here infographic that a Mars settlement mission is very much on the cards.
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