There are about 15,000 satellites orbiting the Earth. Most of them, like the International Space Station and the Hubble Telescope, reside in low Earth…
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On April 14, 2025, Blue Origin launched six women – Aisha Bowe, Amanda Nguyễn, Gayle King, Katy Perry, Kerianne Flynn and Lauren…
A field known as synthetic biology has become one of the most highly anticipated in science. Its outputs range from golden…
For a few days in mid-February, headlines around the world buzzed about the potential for an asteroid to hit the…
On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from Earth.…
Of all the things that Donald Trump’s return as US president could mean, one is that Elon Musk’s plan to…
A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the American…
A physicist, a chemist and a mathematician walk into a bar. It sounds like the start of a bad joke,…
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