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Forming moon may have taken three big impacts early in Earth’s history
The moon may have had a more complicated birth than we thought NASA/NOAA Multiple impacts on…
Asteroid Bennu carries all ingredients to kick-start life as we know it
The OSIRIS-REx sample NASA/Erika Blumenfeld & Joseph Aebersold All the essential ingredients to kick-start life as…
What would Russia’s inability to launch crewed missions mean for ISS?
The Soyuz spacecraft blasting off on 27 November Roscosmos space corporation, via AP/Alamy The International Space…
Read an extract from The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks
“The man is a game-player called ‘Gurgeh’…” diuno/iStockphoto/Getty Images This is the story of a man…
Supermassive dark matter stars may be lurking in the early universe
Exotic stars could be powered by dark matter remotevfx/Getty Images We may have seen the first…
Why dark matter is still one of the biggest open problems in science
“As we enter the second half of the 2020s, it is an incredibly exciting time for…
Astronomers may have glimpsed evidence of the biggest stars ever seen
Artist’s impression of a field of Population III stars 100 million years after the big bang…
We’ve found an unexpected structure in the solar system’s Kuiper belt
An artist’s impression of the Kuiper belt ESO/M. Kornmesser The Kuiper belt, a disc of icy…
Mystery deepens as isolated galaxy forms stars with no obvious fuel
A galaxy called NGC 6789, as seen by the Two-meter Twin Telescope Ignacio Trujillo et al…