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Space

2020 in review: The hunt for life on Venus continues

Clara Sousa-Silva spent most of 2020 sitting on a huge secret 鈥� the apparent detection of phosphine, a potential sign of life, on Venus. She tells 51动漫 what it felt like and what comes next

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Space

Searching for stardust: How to find micrometeorites in your gutters

Features

Physics

Does a halo of mysterious dark matter swirl around every galaxy?

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Space

There are weird volcanoes everywhere we look in the solar system

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telescope

Space

Arecibo Observatory telescope in Puerto Rico collapses after 57 years

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Physics

The universe is expanding too fast, and that could rewrite cosmology

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star and protoplanetary disc

Space

We鈥檝e seen a planet being born while its star is still forming

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magnetar

Space

Repeated radio bursts from nearby star suggest such signals are common

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LED satellite

Space

Satellites with flashing LEDs could help avoid catastrophic collisions

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Environment

How are sand dunes formed and why do they even exist?

The strange, beautiful shapes that sand dunes form are a mystery. Now researchers are conducting huge desert experiments and using dune racetracks to figure it out

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Space

The Orion Nebula is now visible in the sky – here鈥檚 how to find it

Regulars

Physics

Why the vast emptiness of space isn’t really that empty after all

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Physics

Carlo Rovelli: Where does the stuff that falls into a black hole go?

Culture

Humans

Carlo Rovelli鈥檚 new book: Eclectic essays on physics, history and more

Culture