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Japan’s SLIM moon lander surprisingly survived a second lunar night

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Japan’s SLIM moon lander surprisingly survived a second lunar night

The Smart Lander for Investigating Moon spacecraft has sent back images after surviving its second lunar night – generally these periods are so cold they destroy spacecraft electronics

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Early galaxy seen by JWST contains giant young stars and supernovae

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Early galaxy seen by JWST contains giant young stars and supernovae

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Artist's concept of an Artemis astronaut deploying an instrument on the lunar surface

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NASA’s Artemis astronauts will try to grow plants on the moon

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See the messages NASA is sending to Jupiter's icy moon, Europa

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See the messages NASA is sending to Jupiter's icy moon, Europa

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Some of the greatest cosmic discoveries have come about by accident

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Some of the greatest cosmic discoveries have come about by accident

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Martin MacInnes: 'Science fiction can be many different things'

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Martin MacInnes: 'Science fiction can be many different things'

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Debris around the Space X Starship launch pad

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SpaceX’s Starship created a volcano-like explosion in first launch

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SpaceX's Starship taking off on 14 March

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Starship launch: Third flight reaches space but is lost on re-entry

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SpaceX's Starship prepped for flight

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Starship launch 3: What time is the SpaceX flight today?

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Physics

How one theory ties together everything we know about the universe

All known natural phenomena fit into just a few categories and unifying them all is quantum field theory, says physicist Matt Strassler

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Bizarre galaxy in the early universe died extremely young

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JWST will officially begin searching for exomoons around other planets

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How our golden age of asteroid exploration could reveal life's origins

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The best new science fiction books of March 2024

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