Most dramatic films set in space aren’t too concerned with reality (nor do we ask them to be). Ridley Scott’s “The Martian” promises to be different. “The Martian” is based on a bestselling e-book by software engineer Andy Weir. Weir poured a ton of...
.... “We initially set out to see whether we could see clouds from the surface of Titan - clouds are seen in movies from the surface of mars, taken by the MSL rover curiosity - and instead we came across these features...
... anniversary of the most famous supernova to date – SN 1987A – researchers have been working hard to construct time-lapse movies and a three-dimensional model so that the public can ‘see’ a supernova explosion in as much detail as they possibly...
... of a manned space station complete with an Earth-like atmosphere – you know, like the ones we see in the movies – it would seem that for the moment at least, the observatory relates to an instrument. Not much has been...
... (MUSE) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile – a device that looks like a machine straight out of the movie The Matrix – and the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, a team of astronomers calculated the mass of nearby...
... billion on its Apollo missions, India spent approximately $140 million. Indeed, even the budget for Hollywood movie Avengers: Endgame, was more than double at an estimated $356m. "The best is yet to come in our space programme...