Avi Loeb, a physicist from Harvard University in the US, has recovered 50 tiny spherical iron fragments from the bottom of the…
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Before the age of vertically-landing rockets, the pinnacle of the space program’s reusable ambitions was the space shuttle. NASA’s iconic…
Rapid progress in artificial intelligence (AI) has spurred some leading voices in the field to call for a research pause, raise…
The search for planets outside our Solar System – exoplanets – is one of the most rapidly growing fields in…
It’s certainly taken long enough to get to this point but Virgin Galactic has finally sent some of its paying…
The European Space Agency’s (Esa) Euclid mission will launch into space on a Falcon9 rocket from SpaceX on July 1, or soon…
It’s a common meme that any time a science fiction writer creates some terrible object of doom, a venture capitalist…
At the close of the 18th century, the Austrian composer Joseph Haydn wrote one of his masterpieces: an oratorio –…
As dawn rose over the German city of Bremen on May 7 1823, Heinrich Olbers put the finishing touches to an article…
The late physicist Stephen Hawking first asked me to work with him to develop “a new quantum theory of the…