Every issue All About Space delivers fascinating articles and features on all aspects of space and space travel with mind-blowing photography and full-colour illustrations that bring the amazing universe around us to life.
WELCOME
5 ISSUE HIGHLIGHTS
NEW AUGMENTED REALITY
LAUNCH PAD • YOUR FIRST CONTACT WITH THE UNIVERSE
NASA’S PERSEVERANCE MAKES OXYGEN ON MARS FOR THE FIRST TIME
TINY NEWFOUND ‘UNICORN’ IS CLOSEST KNOWN BLACK HOLE TO EARTH
SPACEX COULD LAND ASTRONAUTS ON THE MOON IN 2024, SAYS ELON MUSK
PROXIMA CENTAURI SHOOTS OUT HUMONGOUS FLARE, WITH BIG IMPLICATIONS FOR ALIEN LIFE
CLIMATE CHANGE HAS ALTERED THE EARTH’S TILT
NEWFOUND SUPER-EARTH HAS A SPEEDY ORBIT AROUND A RED DWARF
HUNT FOR THE UNIVERSE’SMISSING STARS • An international team of astronomers is on the hunt for objects that should be impossible
WHAT COULD THE ‘MISSING STARS’ BE? • Here are some of the potential explanations
MISSING STARS AND ALIEN ENGINEERS • Could VASCO’s disappearing stars really be signs of aliens? We asked astrobiologist Dirk Schulze-Makuch
CURIOUS CASE OF THE MISSING STARS • These mosaics showing the sky at different times reveal candidates
HELP FEED FUTURE ASTRONAUTS • Space agencies need your assistance to keep spacefarers healthy on long-duration missions
ROTATING SPACE STATION • They’re a staple of science fiction, but a Californian company is planning to finally make them a reality
THE BOUNDARIES OF QUANTUM PHYSICS • Jeremias Pfaff speaks to All About Space about what it takes to measure gravity on such a minute scale. The next step? To go even smaller
FORGOTTEN PLANS TO REACH THE MOON • BEFORE APOLLO, MANY INGENIOUS LUNAR LANDING SCHEMES WERE PROPOSED THAT COULD HAVE CHANGED HISTORY
THE SCRAPPED PROJECTS • The US Air Force, Army and private contractors produced these major studies before NASA took charge
RISE OF VERA RUBIN’S SUPER OBSERVATORY • Astronomy’s new era will be defined by a wider and deeper view of the universe
WHAT WILL THE RUBIN OBSERVATORY DO?
VERA C. RUBIN OBSERVATORY BY NUMBERS
THE VERA C. RUBIN OBSERVATORY • Examining the universe in unparalleled depth requires an extraordinary telescope and a special location
IS OUR SUN GOING INTO HIBERNATION? • Each sunspot cycle has been getting less intense. Is our star falling asleep?
ON CYCLE 25 • Solar scientist Madhulika Guhathakurta gives her personal view of our current solar cycle
10 AMAZING VOLCANOES IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM • Explore these violent openings into the inner workings and origins of the planets and their moons
FOUND! SAFEST PLACE TO LIVE IN THE MILKY WAY • Astronomers have searched our galaxy to identify the safest places to live. As it turns out, we’re in a pretty good spot
HOW TO SPOT A FAKE SPACE PHOTO • REVEAL IF THAT SENSATIONAL IMAGE IS REAL OR A FRAUD WITH ALL ABOUT SPACE’S TOP TIPS
PLANET PROFILE EARTH • The rocky world that we call home is full of wonders
IS THE UNIVERSE CONSCIOUS? • PERHAPS THE LAWS OF PHYSICS ARE NOT ENOUGH TO EXPLAIN REALITY
A CONSCIOUS UNIVERSE BY NUMBERS
IS PARANEGO’S DISCONTINUITY PROOF OF A CONSCIOUS UNIVERSE? • Physicist Gregory Matloff suggests the behaviour of some stars could show they are responding consciously to stimuli
PUTTING CONSCIOUSNESS BACK INTO THE COSMOS • Dr Philip Goff, a philosopher and consciousness researcher at Durham University, thinks everything in the physical world has a degree of consciousness. He’s the author of Galileo’s Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness
THE THEORIES • Just what could consciousness be?
ASK Space • Our experts answer your...