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SpaceX's Starship prepped for flight

Space

Starship launch 3: What time is the SpaceX flight today?

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is gearing up for the third launch of its massive Starship rocket, following two failed missions, with coverage beginning at about 13.25 GMT. What will the company be hoping for and what can we expect?

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Physics

How one theory ties together everything we know about the universe

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Space

Bizarre galaxy in the early universe died extremely young

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JWST will officially begin searching for exomoons around other planets

Space

JWST will officially begin searching for exomoons around other planets

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How our golden age of asteroid exploration could reveal life's origins

Space

How our golden age of asteroid exploration could reveal life's origins

Features

The best new science fiction books of March 2024

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The best new science fiction books of March 2024

Culture

Workers with NASA???s Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) paint the bright red NASA ???worm??? logo on the side of an Artemis II solid rocket booster segment inside the Rotation, Processing and Surge Facility (RPSF) at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024. The EGS team used a laser projector to mask off the logo with tape, then painted the first coat of the iconic design. The booster segments will help propel the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket on the Artemis II mission to send four astronauts around the Moon as part of the agency???s effort to establish a long-term science and exploration presence at the Moon, and eventually Mars.

Space

NASA workers paint iconic logo onto Artemis II rocket boosters

Regulars

Space

Two lunar landers have fallen over – but they’re still doing okay

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Person writing math equations on glass

Mathematics

Why science relies too much on mathematics

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‘It is all but impossible life exists, and yet it is here’

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‘It is all but impossible life exists, and yet it is here’

Martin MacInnes, the author of 51¶¯Âþ's latest book club pick, the Booker prize-longlisted sci-fi novel In Ascension, on how he came to write it (and a bit of a spoiler)

Culture

Space

Odysseus spacecraft is the first private mission to land on the moon

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Space

Famous supernova left a blazing hot neutron star at its centre

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Space

Intuitive Machines is about to launch its Odysseus moon lander

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Space

SpaceX aims to let astronauts avoid a radio blackout during re-entry

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