Space Travel
September 2026
Every article published in September 2026. 10 articles · Back to full archive
Earth Observation
We tend to picture the Sahara as sterile, but roughly 27.7 million tonnes of its dust cross the Atlantic every year and settle on the Amazon, delivering the phosphorus that keeps the world's largest rainforest from slowly starving its own soil
Energy Tech
In 1977, NASA launched Voyager 1 carrying a gold-plated copper record with a one-billion-year lifespan, holding greetings in 55 languages, 115 images and a 90-minute music selection — even though the craft will not pass near another star for about 40,000 years.
Earth Observation
The quote everyone attributes to Carl Jung: The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are
Opinion Space
Nobody talks about why the most competent person in many workplaces often ends up the most resentful, and it isn't always ego or burnout, it's the slow realization that competence gets you more work, not more freedom
Flora And Fauna
Pronghorn have nearly 360-degree vision and can spot movement up to four miles away across Wyoming sagebrush
Space Travel
A cruising Mars spacecraft has to manage extreme heat and cold on the same flight
Space Travel
On 12 April 1961, Yuri Gagarin completed a single 90-minute orbit of Earth aboard Vostok 1, and by November 2021 ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer had become the 600th human to leave the planet, a tally the ocean floor has never come close to matching
Oil and Gas
A CROZEX study in the sub-Antarctic Southern Ocean measured carbon sinking to three kilometres below the surface and found naturally iron-fertilised waters exported two to three times more carbon than adjacent nutrient-rich patches without the iron
Civil Nuclear