THE CONVERSATION Is Mars really red? A physicist explains the planet’s reddish hue 4 min 0 By David Joffe
ROCKS OF AGES Big bangs and sky stones — SA’s meteorite hunters on exactly what that flash in the sky was 5 min 0 By Estelle Ellis
THE CONVERSATION NASA wants to send humans to Mars in the 2030s − a crewed mission could unlock some of the red planet’s geologic mysteries 4 min 1 By Joel S. Levine
THE CONVERSATION The longstanding mystery of Mars’ moons – and the mission that could solve it 4 min 4 By Ben Rider-Stokes
SPACED OUT The sensational Martian canals — life on the Red Planet as perceived by Percival Lowell 7 min 2 By Don Pinnock
ENERGY CRISIS Act now on rolling blackouts or prices will soar, consumer goods big guns warn Ramaphosa 4 min 0 By Neesa Moodley
SATIRICALLY SPEAKING The seeding of Earth — an experiment that went horribly wrong 7 min 3 By Corrie Verbaan
THE CONVERSATION A ‘doorway’ on Mars? How we see things in space that aren’t there 5 min 0 By David Rothery
THE CONVERSATION Asteroids, the Moon and Mars: space missions to look forward to in 2022 2 min 0 By Monica Grady
THE CONVERSATION Perseverance’s first major successes on Mars – an update from mission scientists 2 min 0 By Melissa Rice and Briony Horgan
THE CONVERSATION Love and rockets: We need to figure out how to have sex in space for human survival and well-being 3 min 1 By The Conversation
ISS TODAY: ANALYSIS Africa may still be in the starting blocks but the continent can’t stay out of the space race 4 min 0 By Peter Fabricius
Space Odyssey ‘Red Seas’ of Mars: discovery of multiple ‘salt lakes' shifts frontiers of planetary science 8 min 0 By Tiara Walters
