The planned construction of an enormous telescope atop Mauna Kea is being blocked by Hawaiian protesters…
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Chinese space station Tiangong-2 is about to fall from space
The Chinese space agency is getting ready to bring its small space station, Tiangong-2, down from…
Internet joke plan to 'raid' Area 51 gets stern reply from US military
What has driven millions of people to sign up to “storm” Area 51, the US government’s…
Journal criticised for study claiming sun is causing global warming
The journal Scientific Reports has been criticised for publishing a study claiming the past two centuries…
Mystery of universe’s expansion deepens with new cosmic calculation
Cosmologists have two clashing measurements of the universe’s expansion, and a new method of measuring surprisingly…
Terraforming Mars with strange silica blanket could let plants thrive
Mars’s surface is not suitable for life because of its low temperatures and constant radiation bombardment,…
There aren’t enough space explosions to explain strange radio bursts
Weird flashes of radio waves from space could in theory be coming from huge explosions, but…
India’s moon mission Chandrayaan 2 delayed just before launch
Just before the intended launch of India’s Chandrayaan 2 mission to the moon’s south pole, a…
Something is seriously wrong with our understanding of the cosmos
Our two ways of measuring the universe’s expansion disagree, and a third method is intensifying that…
India is about to launch a lander and rover to the moon’s south pole
India is launching its second mission to the moon, called Chandrayaan 2, on 14 July. It…