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In 2001, ahead of the opening of the National Space Centre in Leicester, a teenager on work experience was helping to prepare the exhibits. One of them was a
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"Observations of sun-like giant stars currently point towards Earth's survival, but we need better observations before we can be certain."
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Space messes with astronauts' brains – and that might have implications for missions beyond the Moon.
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Today, cloning is not a technology that can simply “copy and paste” living things. But it’s brought advances in several fields of science.
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Following its longest hibernation period ever of nearly a year, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has emerged in good health and is ready to begin transmitting science data gathered in the distant Kuiper Belt far beyond Pluto.
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The number attached to asteroid 16 Psyche is so large that it almost stops being a number. Around $10,000 quadrillion. Ten quintillion dollars. More than the
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"No single telescope tells the whole story. Discoveries build over time, and new observatories expand on the foundations laid by earlier missions."
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Crinoid fossils turn up by the millions, but this is just the second time that scientists have found one with soft tissues still intact.
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Light can carry enormous amounts of information at extreme speeds, making photonic technologies promising for the development of faster communications, more powerful computing systems and more sensitive sensors. But for light to be useful for these purposes, …
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Something on Pluto and one of Saturn’s moons, Titan, absorbs light in a way unexplained by anything in spectroscopic databases.
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NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is now listed by NASA for launch on August 30, 2026, a little earlier than the September 2026 timing that has
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Discoveries at a Üçağızlı II cave in southern Turkey suggest that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens made similar tools, hunted the same animals and both collected shells.
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