SpaceX launched more than just a car into outer space
Sending a car into space with Bowie on the stereo is a nice touch, but the real payload of the ...
Tag: space exploration
Why private industry is the next wave of space exploration
As government investment lags behind, startups are seizing the opportunity to break into the big business of space exploration.
Can space travel shrink long-haul flight times to under one hour?
A new space race is imminent as companies compete to be the first to launch space travel between cities. By ...
Future Mars explorers might live in these tree-inspired dwellings one day
A team from MIT has created what they think will be the dwellings that keep future Mars colonisers alive.
This little origami robot can go where Mars rovers can’t
An Australian university student designed an origami robot that can be used to explore the surface of Mars during an ...
World’s largest radio telescope is a mammoth feat of engineering
This 500 meter behemoth will not only be the world’s largest radio telescope, but it will peer deeper into space ...
Behind the scenes of the ‘biggest science project ever attempted’
In WA's remote Murchison region, engineers and astrophysicist are toiling away on the groundwork for the world's largest radio telescope ...
In the future will astronauts blast off in 3D-printed rockets?
A team from the University of Queensland has designed a rocket using 3D printing for a NASA competition.
Is space exploration the best incentive to get more kids interested in STEM?
To get more kids interested in STEM careers, one program is dangling a carrot – getting to see an experiment ...
