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Mars astronauts may do laundry by blasting clothes with a plasma beam

There is currently no good way for astronauts in space to do laundry, but researchers may have finally come up with one: a bright purple jet of microbe-killing plasma

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Health

How ageing on Earth mimics the effects of space travel

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The distant world that is our best hope of finding alien life

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The distant world that is our best hope of finding alien life

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Tiny 'metajets' could use light to steer sails for interstellar travel

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US government releases huge batch of UFO files

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The best new popular science books of May 2026

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The best new popular science books of May 2026

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Ann Leckie continues to shine with new sci-fi novel Radiant Star

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Antennas of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), on the Chajnantor Plateau in the Chilean Andes. The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, two companion galaxies to our own Milky Way galaxy, can be seen as bright smudges in the night sky, in the centre of the photograph.

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What to read this week: Emma Chapman's mind-expanding Radio Universe

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NASA’s Artemis II mission was a historic success

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NASA’s Artemis II mission was a historic success

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The most stunning pictures from Artemis II’s flyby of the moon

The crew of NASA’s Artemis II mission have captured extraordinary views of the moon, including close-ups of the far side and a breathtaking solar eclipse

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The Artemis II astronauts have flown around the moon

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We may have seen a 'dirty fireball' star explosion for the first time

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Historic Artemis II launch sends astronauts bound for the moon

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Astronauts are ready to return to the moon on Artemis II mission

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