Space

Farewell, Voyager 1

13 April 2024 9:00 am

Some time soon we will have to say farewell to our most distant emissary – the Voyager 1 spacecraft. After…

A bird’s-eye view: Orbital, by Samantha Harvey, reviewed

11 November 2023 9:00 am

Six astronauts at the International Space Station observe the ravages on Mother Earth, but remain hopeful that mankind will find another parent planet

Now imagine a white hole – a black hole’s time-reversed twin…

28 October 2023 9:00 am

Just as you can enter a black hole without leaving it, you can exit a white hole without entering it – but first you must understand what black holes really are

How humans may populate the universe in the billions of years ahead

16 July 2022 9:00 am

How humans may populate the universe in the billions of years ahead

What Jeff Bezos should have learnt from Neil Armstrong

21 July 2021 8:59 am

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos joined the billionaire space race today in his suitably phallic looking New Shepard rocket. Bezos successfully travelled…

Branson vs Bezos: In praise of the billionaire space race

12 July 2021 8:52 pm

They are rich boys with some very expensive toys. As Richard Branson completes his first space flight, it would be…

Why Elon Musk should fly me to the moon

13 March 2021 9:00 am

I have just applied to fly around the moon. My chances of being selected are slim, but is it impossible?…

Dear Mary: What do you do when too many people accept a party invitation?

16 January 2016 9:00 am

Q. What can be done when more people than you can cater for accept an invitation? We are giving a…

Space odyssey: Ed White walking in space over New Mexico, Gemini 4, June 1965 Image: James McDivitt

The images from the Apollo missions will reduce you to tears

4 October 2014 9:00 am

Mark Mason on the images that make grown men cry

Epicurus on particle physics

29 March 2014 9:00 am

According to a top TV scientist, in the beginning there was ‘empty space’ and ‘energy’. After a big bang, the…