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Chandra X-ray Observatory

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Why we need to save the Chandra space telescope

After 25 years in orbit, the Chandra X-ray Observatory is under threat. We need to protect this monument to human ingenuity, argues Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

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Chemistry

The science behind tempering chocolate

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Illustration of NASA's Europa Clipper passing Europa

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Sam Howell: ‘One day we might look for life directly on Europa’

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Space

Lightning can make energy waves that travel shockingly far into space

News

Still from Interstellar

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Interstellar to Doctor Who: Sci-fi dramas getting science mostly right

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Physics

How Einstein was both right and wrong about gravitational waves

News

Tade Thompson

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Tade Thompson: 'It's like the internet, but for aliens'

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Space

Two NASA astronauts may be stuck on the space station until February

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Southern Africa from the Station's

Space

Critics of the International Space Station are missing the point

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Astronaut inside the International Space Station using the combustion rack

Space

Five of the most important International Space Station experiments

From artificial retinas to ageing mice, here are five of the most promising results from research performed on the ISS – and what they might mean for humans on Earth and in space

Features

Space

Inside NASA’s ambitious plan to bring the ISS crashing back to Earth

Features

Space

Banana-shaped galaxies are helping unpeel the mysteries of dark matter

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Space

The best new science fiction books of August 2024

Culture

Space

Why we might finally be about to see the first stars in the universe

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