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Artist's impression of WASP-107b and its parent star

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Fluffy exoplanet blasted by its sun has clouds that rain sand

The James Webb Space Telescope has let us peer into the atmosphere of gas giant planet WASP-107b, and it has clouds made of sand and an atmosphere of sulphur dioxide and water vapour

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An artist's impression of three merging black holes

Physics

Why the quantum universe is weirder than you think

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location of distant black hole

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Astronomers have found the most distant black hole ever confirmed

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Artistic representation of how the Milky Way-like galaxy ceers-2112 would look from Earth

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Distant Milky Way-like galaxy is older than we thought possible

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Searching for life on Mars isn’t worth the risk to Earth

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Searching for life on Mars isn’t worth the risk to Earth

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20 July 1969. Neil Armstrong?s photos of Buzz Aldrin?s first steps on the Moon. This was what it all boiled down to in the end, even after the unprecedented feats of rocketry and all the extraordinary technical innovation which had safely flown two astronauts to a destination a quarter of a million miles from home: the basic human act of walking.

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Walking on the moon: candid photos from astronaut Tim Peake’s new book

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The best new science fiction books of November 2023

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The best new science fiction books of November 2023

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Illustration of a large asteroid colliding with Earth on the Yucatan Peninsula, forming the Chicxulub crater

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Chicxulub: The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs

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Mouse embryos have been grown in space for the first time

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Jeff Goldblum in The Fly

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The scariest sci-fi horror movies for Halloween, chosen by an expert

From The Fly to Event Horizon, horror expert Neil McRobert is here just in time for Halloween with a guide to the best science horror films of all time

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Physics

The physicist trying to create space-time from scratch

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Physics

Is space-time quantum? Six ways to unpick the fabric of the universe

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Space

How the balloon analogy for an expanding universe is almost perfect

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ISS livestream: Watch a live link-up with astronaut Andreas Mogensen

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