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Space 18 September 2020 By Joshua Rapp Learn Eugene Cernan and Ronald Evans flew on the Apollo 17 mission in 1972JSC/NASA The average age of space travellers has been on the rise since cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin first blasted off in 1961, while the overwhelming majority of the 566 people that have been to space are…

Earth 16 September 2020 By Mark Harris International Space Station over the planet Earth. NASA’s funding for the International Space Station is due to end in 2024Shutterstock/NASA LAST year, NASA declared the International Space Station open for business. Although firms could already do research on the ISS under contract with NASA, the agency hoped to…

Finance Minister Tito Mboweni took to Twitter on Sunday to condemn the theft of Covid-19 relief funds. (Gallo Images/Ziyaad Douglas) Gallo Images/Ziyaad Douglas Finance Minister Tito Mboweni took to Twitter on Sunday to condemn the theft of Covid-19 relief funds. He believes theft should be "dealt with decisively". The tweets followed a promise by President Cyril Ramaphosa…

By Jason Arunn Murugesu The ASKAP telescope at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory in Western AustraliaCSIRO Mysterious circles of radio waves found in space have left astronomers scratching their heads, with no idea how they formed, or even how big or far away they are. They don’t seem to match anything that has been seen in…

By Leah Crane A strange explosion in space, nicknamed “the Cow”, is becoming less mysteriousAlamy/NASA/JPL-Caltech A strange explosion in space is starting to reveal its secrets. In 2018, astronomers spotted an extraordinarily fast and bright explosion unlike anything we had ever seen before, and now they are starting to narrow down what could have caused…