An exhausted-looking Elon Musk said on Monday he’s unsure his rocket company SpaceX will accomplish its foundational mission – getting to Mars – before he dies.
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An exoplanet more than double the size of Earth could potentially be habitable, astronomers have found.
The UK said it will spend £1.2-billion – about R23.3-billion – on developing the most powerful weather and climate supercomputer in the world.
Experts at the Seti Institute, an organisation dedicated to tracking extraterrestrial intelligence, are developing state-of-the-art techniques to detect signatures from space that indicate the possibility of extraterrestrial existence.
Two defunct satellites, racing across the sky at around 53 000km/h, narrowly missed smashing into each other on Thursday. They may have come within 47m of each other at their closest approach.
Elon Musk’s rocket company has one last, major hurdle to clear before it attempts an historic first flight of astronauts for Nasa: proving it can safely abort a mission if something goes wrong after takeoff.
Scientists claim to have created the world’s first living robots using stem cells from frog embryos. The tiny hybrids are “entirely new lifeforms” known as xenobots and are able to move about.
A few months ago, a group of Nasa exoplanet astronomers, who are in the business of discovering planets around other stars, called me into a secret meeting to tell me about a planet that had captured their interest.
Around two-thirds of the satellites orbiting Earth are dead, posing a “very big danger” to the planet, European space ministers have heard.
Nasa has revealed a concept of what a future moon lander might look like, as it aims to return astronauts to the moon by 2024.