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I almost drowned in space when my helmet filled with water

During his second-ever spacewalk, European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano felt water creeping across his face – and knew he could be moments from drowning inside his helmet

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Astronaut running during sunset at a remote planet

Health

How working out like an astronaut can reduce back pain and slow ageing

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Captivating space images show how it has inspired us through the ages

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Captivating space images show how it has inspired us through the ages

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Maggie Aderin's dream: To walk by the footprints of Neil Armstrong

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Project Hail Mary is a spiritual sibling to The Martian - and it's fab

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Project Hail Mary is a spiritual sibling to The Martian - and it's fab

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Why Yuri Gagarin wasn’t the first in space – and who beat him to it

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Person looking up at starry night at Spiral Jetty, USA. Provider: Alamy Stock Photo Source: www.alamy.com Copyright: Celestine Dagli/Alamy

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Would aliens do physics, or is science a human invention?

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Fractal conceptual illustration of supersymmetry or superstrings. Supersymmetry (SUSY) is a particle physics theory that proposes a type of spacetime symmetry relating two basic classes of elementary particles: bosons, which have an integer-valued 'spin', and fermions, which have a half-integer spin. If supersymmetry is a true symmetry of nature, it would explain many mysterious features of particle physics and would help solve paradoxes such as the cosmological constant problem. There is only indirect evidence for the existence of supersymmetry, primarily in the form of evidence for gauge coupling unification. Direct confirmation would entail production of superpartners at collider experiments, such as at the Large Hadron Collider.

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A crisis in cosmology may mean hidden dimensions really exist

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NASA’s Artemis moon exploration programme is getting a major makeover

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How worried should you be about an asteroid smashing into Earth?

The dinosaurs were wiped out by an asteroid, but does that mean we risk suffering the same fate - and should you be worried about the possibility? Leah Crane sets the matter straight

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What to read this week: Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean by Dagomar Degroot

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Amazing sneak peek of NASA's spacesuit tests as moon mission nears

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A new 'brief history' of the universe paints a wide picture

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The weird rules of temperature get even stranger in the quantum realm

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