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New Scientist – Space
NASA has selected three lunar landers to bring humans to the moon
NASA has awarded $967 million to three space flight companies – Blue Origin, Dynetics, and SpaceX…
I'm a space archaeologist studying junk strewn across the solar system
From vintage satellites to lunar rovers, space archaeologist Alice Gorman is teasing out a unique history…
Is the universe conscious? It seems impossible until you do the maths
The question of how the brain gives rise to subjective experience is the hardest of all.…
We may have found 19 more interstellar asteroids in our solar system
A bunch of asteroids near Jupiter and Neptune with orbits perpendicular to the plane of the…
Astronomical time can help us put lockdown into perspective
The coronavirus pandemic is making life feel slower than ever, but observing timescales across the universe…
We know the best spots to look for alien life – can we get to them?
Extraterrestrial oceans are an obvious place to search for alien life, but getting there and having…
Weird magnetic threads in sun's corona seen for the first time
New images reveal threads of ultra-hot gas woven throughout the sun’s corona, in the most detailed…
Our nearest star system may have a planet with a colossal set of rings
We know that there is at least one planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to…
Ripples in Earth’s atmosphere make distant galaxies appear to flash
Faraway galaxies have been spotted unexpectedly flashing up to 100 times their usual brightness, and it…