Space Exploration
Life Beyond Earth in 10 Years or Less?
[/caption] Illustration credit: Robert McCall Peter Smith feels pretty certain we'll be finding life on Mars within the next decade. …
New Bill Would Extend Shuttle Life, but NASA Doesn’t Need the Time
[/caption] The Senate Budget Committee has given the green light to fund NASA's shuttle program past the end of 2010,…
Russia Will Send Life to Phobos
[/caption] How ironic. Not content with searching for life on Mars, the Russian space agency and the US-based Planetary Society…
Robots Could Prepare Moon Outpost Site
[/caption] A new type of lunar robots is being designed which could help prepare locations on the Moon for human…
The Journey of Space Exploration: Ex-Astronaut Views on NASA
[/caption]It reads like the annual progress report from my first year in university. He lacks direction, he's not motivated and…
Best Space Images of 2008
[/caption] I've been meaning to put together an article highlighting the best space and astronomy pictures of 2008, but I…
SpaceX, Orbital Sciences Awarded ISS Re-supply Contract
[/caption] Two upstart commercial space companies have been awarded contracts by NASA for commercial cargo resupply services to the International…
New Space Elevator Consortium
[/caption] A coalition of leaders working on the concept of a space elevator has joined forces to form the International…
40th Anniversary of the Great Gamble: Apollo 8
[/caption] The Apollo 8 mission was a seminal moment not in only the history of spaceflight, but in human history…
Nominations: The Universe Today Top 10 Scientific Endeavours of 2008
2008 has been a landmark year for space science and physics endeavour. We've peered deep into the cosmos and fitted…