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Solar Orbiter will give us our best views of the sun’s top and bottom
The Solar Orbiter spacecraft, set to launch on 7 February, will give us our first clear…
Mysteriously bright supernova may have smashed up a huge gas cloud
A strange supernova that’s 100 times brighter than it should be has long been a mystery,…
Inside the mission to stop killer asteroids from smashing into Earth
When asteroid Armageddon is upon us, we can’t just call Bruce Willis. Meet the people who…
Chinese Chang’e 4 engineer explains how to garden on the moon
The brains behind the first plant ever to germinate on the moon explains how the Chinese…
A Scheme of Heaven reveals what scientists can learn from astrology
Astrology is bunk, but a new book exploring its ancient history argues that it has crucial…
NASA astronaut Kathryn Sullivan on zero G dreams and fixing Hubble
The first US woman to spacewalk flew three on shuttle missions and says nothing beats space…
Weird dust balls seen impossibly close to our galaxy’s huge black hole
At the centre of our galaxy, six strange clouds that look like dust and gas orbit…
A single star has let us put a date on our galaxy’s last cosmic meal
The Milky Way ate another galaxy called Gaia-Enceladus, and the waves passing through a star have…
China has developed the world’s first mobile quantum satellite station
China has connected the world’s first portable ground station for quantum communication to the Mozi satellite,…