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An artist?s impression of the Martian settlement SpaceX has envisioned. Image: SpaceX https://www.spacex.com/humanspaceflight/mars/

Technology

Inside the outlandish, futuristic dreams of the tech bros

Exposing the origins of the improbable – and at times scary – plans of tech billionaires makes Adam Becker's More Everything Forever a disturbing but important book

Culture

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Space

51¶¯Âþ recommends The Martian – sci-fi fun for all the family

Culture

Space

How long is a day on Uranus? Slightly longer than we thought, it seems

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Tom Hanks plays Commander Jim Lovell in Apollo 13

Video

Astronomer reviews the sci-fi movies that get creative with physics

Video

Space

We could make solar panels on the moon by melting lunar dust

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Physics

How nothing could destroy the universe

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Space

NASA cut $420 million for climate science, moon modelling and more

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Space

Asteroid 2024 YR4 could still hit the moon, JWST observations reveal

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Space

Little red dots seen by JWST might be a kind of black hole 'star'

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Support teams work around a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft shortly after it landed with NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, Butch Wilmore, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov aboard in the water off the coast of Tallahassee, Florida, Tuesday, March 18, 2025. Hague, Gorbunov, Williams, and Wilmore are returning from a long-duration science expedition aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Keegan Barber)

Space

Dolphins greet astronauts after SpaceX Dragon capsule splashdown

Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore returned to Earth after nine months on board the International Space Station

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Space

An early hint of cosmic dawn has been seen in a distant galaxy

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Space

German company set for first commercial rocket launch from Europe

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Space

Is our cosmos just a membrane on the edge of a far stranger reality?

Features

Space

Giant Milky Way-like galaxy formed unusually soon after the big bang

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