Adobe Stock Photo/Phoebe Watts A blue Earth ascends over the barren surface of the moon, against…
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Odd elements in supernova blast might have implications for alien life
The supernova remnant Cassiopeia A NASA/JPL-Caltech/O. Krause (Steward Observatory) Hidden within Cassiopeia A, the youngest known…
Comet 3I/ATLAS from beyond solar system carries key molecule for life
Comet 3I/ATLAS is only the third known visitor to our solar system from elsewhere International Gemini…
Planned satellite launches could ruin Hubble Space Telescope images
A simulated image representing the projected contamination by satellite trails in a future space telescope image…
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…