19th February 2024
Commercial space travel is fast becoming an accepted reality, but is it worth it? Growing up by the sea, the sky at night was clear and brilliant for stargazing. Travelling the galaxy used to be something which we could only experience through our imagination and on screen. Now, with the establishment of new companies focused ...
9th September 2023
Scotland will soon be home to five spaceports: here’s why it’s time for Scotland’s otherworldly ‘historic moment’. Picture a rocket launch. Most likely your mind takes you somewhere in North America, but it’s time to start thinking closer to home – how about Scotland? The UK’s spaceport programme has proposed that five out of seven ...
17th November 2021
Rebecca Richard explores how to make time for creative hobbies as high-speed life ramps up. As the initial three-week lockdown slowly turned into three months, I found myself at a loss for how to fill my time. The normally hectic months at the end of the academic year were suddenly freed up as exams were ...
5th April 2021
We invest so much money to go into space – why not invest it in protecting the Earth first? On 19 February 2021, after travelling for almost seven months through space, NASA’s rover Perseverance landed on Mars. It is a triumph for mankind, with similar missions planned by other nations in the future. But should ...
28th December 2020
Can moon water pave the way to Mars? NASA has discovered water on the sunlit surface of the Moon for the first time. The breakthrough discovery paves the way for a sustainable lunar base. Given that we first contacted the Moon over five decades ago you may wonder: why hadn’t we found water sooner? Since ...
22nd October 2020
Nasa has discovered water on Mars, but does this mean there is life on the red planet? After everything 2020 has thrown at us, would it be entirely implausible to expect an alien invasion before the year is through? Economies grinding to a halt, a global pandemic, and unprecedented global restrictions all would have been ...
13th October 2020
The presence of phosphine on Venus suggests possible life. Does this prove that there is life on Venus? Perhaps after the catastrophic year we’ve all had, the prospect of moving to an entirely different planet sounds quite promising. Like so many others, I was intrigued when I heard the news about possible alien life on ...
