by Tira Shubart | 5 Feb 2025 | Decoder Replay, Environment, Science, Space, Technology
Technology depends on rare earth minerals, but their extraction can harm our planet. Asteroids offer a plentiful source of valuable elements. In the future, mankind will go to the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter to mine for the vast wealth that is within the...
by Ashley Perl | 15 Jan 2025 | Decoder Replay, Space, Technology, University of Toronto Journalism Fellows
Way up over our heads satellites and rocket parts orbit the Earth. Sometimes pieces of metal fall towards us. Most burn up in the atmosphere, but not all. A giant metal ring that fell from space onto a Kenyan village in December 2024. (Credit: Kenyan Space Agency)...
by Cathal O'Luanaigh | 6 Aug 2024 | Correspondents in the Spotlight, Journalism, News Decoder Updates, Politics, Space
Journalism gave one reporter the ability to travel the world to be there when things happen. For News Decoder, her stories take us into outer space. When you read a published article on News Decoder, you’re only seeing part of the story. Who is writing it? What went...
by Ashley Perl | 25 Mar 2024 | Environment, Space
Way up over our heads satellites and rocket parts orbit the Earth. Sometimes pieces of metal fall towards us. Most burn up in the atmosphere, but not all. Flames come out of a satellite falling towards Earth. (Illustration by News Decoder) Back in 1978, a Soviet...
by Tira Shubart | 31 Jan 2024 | Decoder Replay, Space
The little space copter that could finally puttered out. But our hopes for stepping on Martian soil? That keeps chugging along. An illustration of NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter stands on the Red Planet’s surface. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)...