Instant Genius: Future Space Exploration

Everything you need to know about the future of exploring our Universe, from how we could leave Earth to what will replace the ISS.

Published: May 31, 2020 at 11:00 pm

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Move over, Mars: why we should look further afield for future human colonies

5/30/2020
Why should Mars get all the attention? There are so many more exciting places in our Solar System we could live.
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Elisa Raffaella Ferrè: What happens to the brain in space?

6/18/2020
Psychologist Dr Elisa Raffaella Ferrè explains how a lack of gravity might change the way we think.
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Race to the Moon: Inside China's plans to build a lunar base

11/15/2019
The landing of Chang'e 4 on the far side of the Moon is only start of China's groundbreaking lunar feats.
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The Voyager mission and our Pale Blue Dot: How the most famous picture in science came to be

4/14/2020
One of the Voyager’s founding scientists Garry Hunt tells us about the idea behind the image, how it shaped his life and how NASA has changed since the photo’s creation 30 years ago.
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Comet Interceptor: unlocking the secrets of the early Solar System

3/25/2020
Comets may hold the secret to life on Earth. That’s why scientists are designing a mission that will pay a visit to one of these enigmatic, icy travellers to take a closer look.
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What if we mined the Moon?

2/29/2020
The Moon is abundant in natural resources. But what would happen if we went there and extracted them?
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Race to Venus: What we'll discover on Earth's toxic twin

1/16/2020
Scientists want to return to Venus, so they can try to find out why it morphed from a pleasant planet into a fiery and inhospitable hell hole.
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The unintended consequences of privatising space

11/6/2019
If the quest to become an interplanetary species becomes entirely propelled by profits, we risk losing sight of the values that make space exploration so important.
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