The patience of ordinary things
"A different perspective exposes something new in Oxford’s tangle of streets and colleges; from afar, students on bikes and tourist groups and traffic disputes stop feeling like a nuisance, revealing instead a quiet, understated sort of loveliness."
UFOs, Space Baboons, and Masculinity
Somehow, “Pentagon confirms UFOs may exist” barely registers as news. It’s a shame, since our cultural obsession with the great unknown of outer space...
The Next Giant Leap
"Developing nations just simply have seldom attempted things like this before, but these programs would be a good chance to set up governmental, industrial, and academic infrastructure that would place them at the frontier of development in space." Harry Chapman argues that the outlook for Thailand's new lunar programme is anything but negative and why developing nations participating in space exploration might be a better idea than it seems.
Specks
"From a space we might call "above", an Entity watches - gargantuan, unfathomable, other."
Exploring Space is Worth the Costs
Boldy defending boldly going
Apollo 11 (2019)- An Interview with archival producer Stephen Slater
Mattie O'Donovan speaks with Stephen Slater, the chief archival producer for Apollo 11, a new, critically lauded documentary on the first moon landing.
A whole new world: NASA’s pioneering search for life
Jonathan Stark explains how the TESS satellite will help us find new life
US and Russian space agencies to work on new moon-orbiting space station
The agreement demonstrates NASA's belief that the key to future space exploration is co-operation
Oxford scientists to build world’s largest telescope
When completed, the optical telescope will assist in “exploring the unknown”
Race to the Red Planet
From NASA to SpaceX, Matthew Nicholson outlines why we want to go to Mars, and who is going to take us there.
A sequel packed with character and heart
"Director James Gunn has crafted one of the funniest and most genuinely moving Marvel films I can remember."
Calum Bradshaw has his doubts hushed by Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.2
Spacecraft gets between Saturn and its rings
Irteza Ishraq takes a look at the latest developments in understanding Saturn's rings
Researchers capture most detailed glimpse of early star formation
Irteza Ishraq explores the nature and science of star formation.
Occupy Mars with Kyle Grant
https://youtu.be/wn8RP6_M8gs
Last week, we went to the Oxford University Aeronautical Society event with Kyle Grant. In collaboration with NASA, his project specialises in the design...