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BepiColombo mission will start to unpick Mercury's secrets in 2026

The BepiColombo mission has been on its way to Mercury since 2018 and will finally start orbiting the planet and taking X-ray images in the second half of 2026

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Space

NASA's Artemis II mission aims to return astronauts to moon in 2026

News

The century-long hunt for the gigantic meteorite that vanished

Space

The century-long hunt for the gigantic meteorite that vanished

Features

Space

The best space pictures of 2025, from supernovae to moon landings

News

The essential guide to proving we’ve found alien life

Space

The essential guide to proving we’ve found alien life

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3D6BBB4 Comet Lemmon photographed from northern Italy on 26th October 2025.

Space

Comets were on fire this year – for better or worse

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Scientists inside a science base in the Moon conduct a variety of humorous experiments. We see a cat chasing after a giant laser beam; a scientist being eaten by a venus fly trap, a star falling through a Christmas tree as a scientist tries and fails to put it on top, a scientist going to a 'moonshine' bar, robots attending a seminar, a scientist trapping a human brain in a forcefield, and scientists stepping through portals. In the sky above the spaceship, Santa is being abducted by aliens.

Physics

Inside the wild experiments physicists would do with zero limits

Features

Why we only recently discovered space is dark not bright

Space

Why we only recently discovered space is dark not bright

Features

Aurora Borealis dancing over Tromso Urban Skyline. Tromso Panorama and winter night landscape with Northern Lights (Aurora Polaris) on a cold night, with starry sky, polar lights and snowcapped mountains on Kvaloya Island in the background. Cityscape with Brightly Street Light of the Arctic Capital, Northern Norway

Earth

The audacious quest to light up the sky with artificial auroras

Features

The supernova remnant Cassiopeia A

Space

Odd elements in supernova blast might have implications for alien life

Some of the elements used by living systems are far more abundant in Cassiopeia A than we thought, hinting that some parts of our galaxy might be more suitable for life than others

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The four best science documentaries of 2025

Culture

Physics

Why quantum mechanics says the past isn’t real

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Physics

Black hole entropy hints at a surprising truth about our universe

Features

Space

What would Russia's inability to launch crewed missions mean for ISS?

Analysis

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