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Rubin Observatory’s commissioning camera (ComCam) Rubin Observatory/NSF/AURA/H. Stockebrand Sometime in May or June, as the southern hemisphere winter sets in …

Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library/Alamy There is something strange about Earth. A few billion years ago, a process started here that …

Mars – the kind of place to raise your kids? ESA /MPS/OSIRIS/MPS/UPD/LAM/​IAA/RSSD/INTA/UPM/DASP/I​DA As a kind of living embodiment of the …

The International Space Station MSFC/NASA Samantha Harvey, who has won the UK’s top fiction award, the Booker prize, for her …

When it comes to natural disasters, most are impossible to predict more than a few months or even days ahead …

Compounds called pyrenes have been detected in the Taurus molecular cloud ESO A complex form of carbon crucial for life …

Galaxy Messier 82 (M82), also known as the cigar galaxy NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage Team (STScIAURA); J. Gallagher (University of Wisconsin), M. …

Chandra X-ray Observatory NASA/CXC & J. Vaughan On 23 July 1999, just months before I started university, NASA’s space shuttle …

Lightning can produce special waves of energy RooM the Agency/Alamy An overlooked mechanism lets energy from lightning reach the highest …

A century ago, Albert Einstein suggested that the universe might contain ripples in space-time, known as gravitational waves – but …