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JWST will officially begin searching for exomoons around other planets

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JWST will officially begin searching for exomoons around other planets

Five exomoon programmes have been picked for the James Webb Space Telescope, raising the hopes of finding moons around exoplanets for the first time

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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

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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.

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NASA workers paint iconic logo onto Artemis II rocket boosters

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

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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’

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

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

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Famous supernova left a blazing hot neutron star at its centre

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Intuitive Machines is about to launch its Odysseus moon lander

US company Intuitive Machines is launching its Odysseus lander towards the moon's south pole. If all goes well, it will be the first private firm to put a spacecraft on the moon

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

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Super Earths that seem to have oceans may actually be covered in magma

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Physics

Why physicists are rethinking the route to a theory of everything

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Space

Why it takes so much work to grow plants in space

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