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Alan Dyer/Stocktrek Images/Alamy THE 20th of March marks the vernal, or spring, equinox in the northern…

Titan’s sand dunes may be made of smashed up small moons

A radar image of the Shangri-La sand sea on Titan, taken from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASI/Université…

Perfectly straight ridges may cover the poles of Saturn’s moon Titan

Landforms called yardangs can form on Earth – and they might also be present on Saturn’s…

The strange phenomena visible during April’s total solar eclipse

The moon will cover the sun on 8 April for people in parts of the US,…

We may have spotted a parallel universe going backwards in time

IN THE Antarctic, things happen at a glacial pace. Just ask Peter Gorham. For a month…

Starship launch: Third flight reaches space but is lost on re-entry

SpaceX’s Starship taking off on 14 March SpaceX SpaceX’s third and most ambitious Starship test flight…

Is the universe conscious? It seems impossible until you do the maths

THEY call it the “unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics”. Physicist Eugene Wigner coined the phrase in the…

A single meteorite smashed into Mars and created 2 billion craters

The Martian surface is heavily cratered Stocktrek Images, Inc. / Alamy When a single small meteorite…

Starship launch 3 livestream: Watch SpaceX’s third attempted launch here – latest updates

SpaceX will attempt its third and most ambitious Starship test flight today, with launch expected at…

Starship launch 3: What time is the SpaceX flight today?

SpaceX’s Starship prepped for flight SpaceX SpaceX is launching its massive Starship rocket for the third…