We all used to think there were nine planets. But in 2006 the solar system was left with only eight…
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Enceladus is the tiny moon of Saturn that seems to have it all. Its icy surface is intricately carved by…
The bright, red star Betelgeuse in the constellation Orion has shown some unexpected behaviour. In late 2019 and 2020 it became fainter…
Science fiction has always been a tool for processing life on Earth. Norwegian sci-fi expert Karl Kristian Swane Bambini has said that…
Once upon a time, landing a rocket seemed like something out of Ray Bradbury’s Martian Chronicles. Then came Elon Musk,…
A committee set up by Nasa has examined about 800 reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs), or what most of us would call…
Claims the US government has secretly retrieved crashed alien spacecraft and their non-human occupants are hardly new. They are firmly…
First detected accidentally by US military satellites in the late 1960s, cosmic explosions known as gamma ray bursts (GRBs) have come to…
Life on Earth owes its existence to photosynthesis – a process which is 2.3 billion years old. This immensely fascinating…
Starliner? Not so much Boeing’s Starliner hasn’t had a particularly star-studded past and that won’t be changing anytime soon. A…