Rovers, magnetic tubes and other trips.
Tag: space
Whooshing towards martian virtual reality.
A planet full of robots, monoliths across the solar system and serendipitous feminism.
The month that had it all. Firsts in space exploration, fantastic maps of the sky, extraterrestrials.
Last month in science: huge amounts of matter and huge amounts of energy get accounted for. Also, selfies from another world.
Superconductivity, asteroids, disappointments and new hopes. Also, alien invasions, diamonds and lasers.
September didn’t disappoint: even more water was found on Mars and possible signs of life were found on Venus!
Beautiful storms, complicated light, galactic vastness, a wave of antibiotics…
Remember when cosmonaut Yelena Serova was asked how she would look after her hair in space? Or when astronaut Sally Ride was asked ‘do you weep when things go wrong on the job?’
Everyone who has been thinking about extraterrestrials for five minutes straight without involving fantasies of abduction has certainly wondered “why don’t we see any signs of them?” Estimations say that it’d be within reason to expect thousands of civilizations in…