Pluto (right) and its moon Charon, photographed by NASA’s New Horizons probe in 2015 NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI Pluto…
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New Scientist – Space
Could 2025 be the year we finally start to understand dark energy?
This rainbow pattern shows the structure of 60,000 galaxies as captured by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument…
The stargazing events to look forward to in 2025
The northern lights in Denali National Park in Alaska in 2024 Tom Walker/Alamy As the new…
The best sci-fi books to look forward to in 2025 from Adrian Tchaikovsky to Ken Liu
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The Vera C. Rubin Observatory gets started next year. I can’t wait
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These are all of the missions heading to the moon in 2025
SpaceX wants to land its Starship rocket on the moon SpaceX Around a dozen landers are aiming for…
NASA’s Mars helicopter was grounded in 2024 after surprise success
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The best space images from 2024
The Penguin and the compact elliptical galaxy the Egg NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI NASA’s James Webb…
Our bumper science quiz of the year 2024
From a fish with a tiny brain to the world’s oldest cheese, we have reported on…
Is this the world’s toughest word search? We dare you to try it
We challenge you to find the scientific terms in this monster of a puzzle – and…