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The best new science fiction books of March 2025
John Scalzi, Silvia Park and Ai Jang all have new books out this month. Whether it’s time travel or a moon made of cheese that takes your fancy, there’s some sci-fi here for you
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91av recommends Jennifer Walshe: Zero-gravity opera
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Physics
How does astronomy fit into astrophysics – and does it matter?
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Space
Distant exoplanet may be the most volcanic world ever found
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How meteorites are rewriting the history of the solar system
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Astronomers have spotted the largest known object in the universe
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The best new science fiction books of February 2025
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Space
These interstellar spaceship designs are wildly impractical
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Space
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory gets started next year. I can’t wait
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Space
The best space images from 2024
This year has delivered some awe-inspiring imagery of space, from the James Webb Space Telescope’s stunning shots of faraway stars and galaxies to images of the skies taken from here on planet Earth
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Exoplanet plate tectonics: A new frontier in the hunt for alien life
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Having a baby on Mars? You may be in for a difficult time
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Space
This bold, experimental slice of deep-space sci-fi is just brilliant
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Technology
Millions of phones create most complete map ever of the ionosphere
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