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Space

Vera Rubin Observatory has already found thousands of new asteroids

In just 10 hours of observing the night sky, the powerful new telescope detected more than 2000 new asteroids, including a few that will pass near Earth

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Space

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is about to totally transform astronomy

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Space

One half of the moon is hotter than the other

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2YF8KFA A man takes the ice bath in frozen lake, the icy water providing a refreshing and invigorating experience during winter swimming

Health

An expert's new book unravels the amazing secrets of the vagus nerve

Culture

A colour-enhanced scanning electron microscope image of a mushroom with psychedelic properties

Mind

Psychedelics may boost mental health by dampening inflammation

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How vanishing Y chromosomes could help explain men's ill health

Health

How vanishing Y chromosomes could help explain men's ill health

Features

KHKRFM Haumea and moons, illustration. Haumea is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt. It is noted for its elongated shape, somewhat like a rugby ball. It is orbited by at least two moons and a narrow ring of rocky particles.

Space

How to spot Haumea, one of the solar system's strangest objects

Regulars

We're finally uncovering fibre's remarkable benefits for body and mind

Health

We're finally uncovering fibre's remarkable benefits for body and mind

Features

The Mysterious NWA 15915

Space

Weird meteorite may be relic of lost planet that no longer exists

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Mars appears light blue in this near-infrared image from the Hera spacecraft, with its moon Deimos represented by a dark mark towards the centre of the image

Space

Hera asteroid mission takes stunning images of Mars’s moon Deimos

A mission to survey the results of a deliberate crash between an asteroid and a NASA spacecraft has taken stunning images of Mars and its moon Deimos

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Space

Saturn gains 128 moons, giving it more than the other planets combined

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Space

There’s a tiny chance the asteroid headed for Earth could hit the moon

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Space

How meteorites are rewriting the history of the solar system

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Space

Why we must investigate Phobos, the solar system's strangest object

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