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Starship launch: Fourth test succeeds as both stages splash into sea

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Starship launch: Fourth test succeeds as both stages splash into sea

SpaceX's Starship has been to orbit and back in its fourth flight test, with both rocket stages soft landing in the ocean, though parts of the spacecraft appeared to be damaged during descent

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These are the best new science fiction books to read this June 2024

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These are the best new science fiction books to read this June 2024

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How materials that rewind light can test physics' most extreme ideas

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How materials that rewind light can test physics' most extreme ideas

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2X519P5 Cape Canaveral, United States of America. 05 May, 2024. The Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft on top of the ULA Atlas V rocket with crew gantry in position on Space Launch Complex-41 at the Kennedy Space Center, May 5, 2024, in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Starliner is expected to launch May 6th on the first manned Crew Flight Test carrying astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to the International Space Station. Credit: Joel Kowsky/NASA Photo/Alamy Live News

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Starliner launch: When is Boeing testing its crewed space capsule?

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Our writers pick their favourite science fiction books of all time

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Our writers pick their favourite science fiction books of all time

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Active lava flows on Venus raise the stakes for future exploration

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Sci-fi author Martha Wells on what a machine intelligence might want

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Sci-fi author Martha Wells on what a machine intelligence might want

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Read an extract from All Systems Red by Martha Wells

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Read an extract from All Systems Red by Martha Wells

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2WG3YFC Titanium crater formed by a laser, SEM

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Some metals actually grow more resilient when hot

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How indefinite causality could lead us to a theory of quantum gravity

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How indefinite causality could lead us to a theory of quantum gravity

Experiments show that effect doesn’t always follow cause in the weird world of subatomic particles, offering fresh clues about the quantum origins of space-time

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Why are there so many rogue planets and what do they look like?

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Physicists are grappling with their own reproducibility crisis

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We are about to hear echoes in the fabric of space for the first time

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500-year-old maths problem turns out to apply to coffee and clocks

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