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New Scientist – Space
Why space junk is such a big problem
Aerospace engineer Hugh Lewis has a warning for the world: don’t junk up space, or it…
Jeff Bezos announces plans for delivery service to the moon by 2024
Space flight company Blue Origin unveiled a new lunar lander that the firm says will deliver…
Working hypothesis: From space deliveries to dirty money
Sorting the week’s supernovae from the absolute zeros Click here for original story, Working…
Why 'Martian' Tanya Harrison loves everything about the Red Planet
Tanya Harrison has been fascinated by space since she was 5 and now works on rocks…
Fast radio bursts: We're finally decoding messages from deep space
Strange signals from space called fast radio bursts have confused astronomers for years. A new wave…
We’ve spotted a strange asteroid that’s spinning itself to pieces
There’s a new type of asteroid that has a tail like a comet because it’s spinning…
Surprisingly wet asteroid dust could spark a rethink of Earth's water
Samples of space dust from the Hayabusa mission to the asteroid Itokawa are far less dry…
From the archives: How do you get astronauts back from space?
50 years ago, the Apollo missions were gearing up to put a human on the moon…
The race to build a space internet available to anyone, anywhere
Tech billionaires are building a wireless, orbiting internet accessible in even the deepest jungle. The first…