June 2018
Cosmic communications and the anthropology of outer space
... intelligent beings? In 1990, Voyager 1 pivoted to take a ‘portrait’ of Earth that helped relativize the planet as part of a larger cosmos. The famous ‘pale blue dot’ photo from almost four billion miles away underscores Earth’s smallness...
August 2018
Exoplanet census promises radical discoveries
... next decade is out. This would bring us one step closer to understanding whether we are not alone in the cosmos and usher in a new era of astronomy, laying the groundwork for future telescopes designed to characterise Earth-like...
August 2018
Flouting the rules on satellite registrations
... from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in September 1997, was accidentally omitted. In February 2009 The Iridium 33 and Cosmos 2251 communications satellites collided over northern Siberia - the first time a hypervelocity collision occurred between two...
April 2019
Is a military space force justified?
... with danger and increases the possibility that war will be exported from this planet into the cosmos. About the author Attorney Leslie I Tennen has focused on space law for more than 40 years. He is a partner...
January 2020
A year of consolidation and expansion
..., the astronomer Ernst Julius Öpik. He did a lot of pioneering work on the solar system. With names like Cosmos and Supernova for meeting rooms it had Asgardia written all over it. The stage was set for...
February 2020
Visions of spaceflight before the Space Age
... (USA). Tsiolkovsky published several small books on space travel and cosmology (the expansion of humans into the cosmos). The ‘holy grail’ of this genre is an article published in the May 1903 issue of Nauchnoe Obozrenie [Scientific Review...
