These ripples in the very fabric of the universe were hypothesized by Einstein a century ago. Now scientists have detected them for the third time in a year and a half – ushering in a new era in astrophysics.
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There are loads of applications for 3D printers in space.
If a huge huntsman spider is sucked into a vacuum cleaner, can it crawl out later? Lucy, age eight, really, really needs to know.
Simon John James and Richard Bower chat about differing conceptions of what it is to travel through time.
Sperm that’s been to space is good enough to get mice pregnant – and give birth to healthy offspring.
To get us to Mars and beyond, a team of students from around the world has a plan involving lunar rovers mining ice and a space station between the Earth and the moon.
Plants on other planets are bound to be even weirder than the strangest ones we find on Earth – if they even exist.
People used to think that when they looked up at the night sky, they were seeing all of space. Then American astronomer Edwin Hubble found out something so amazing, NASA named a telescope after him.
With the probe now on its ‘Grand Finale,’ a Cassini team member describes the amazing discoveries it made about the ringed planet and its many moons.
Australia’s hoping to take a share of the billion-dollar space industry with the launch of its first totally Australian-built satellites in 15 years.
The Astronomer Royal answers some of the world’s – and the universe’s – biggest questions.
Co-working spaces are evolving to suits the needs of a changing workforce.
Astronomers are surprised by what they’re finding out about galaxies that formed in the early days of our universe, now that sensitive telescopes allow direct observation, not the inference of old.
In the face of recent political events in Britain and America, sci-fi imaginings of the ‘citizens of the future’ have taken on a new resonance.
So where did all the dark matter come from?
Every moment of life on our planet has had the force of gravity in the background. But the prospect of long-distance space travel means it’s time to figure out what happens to our biology in its absence.
Scientists have discovered seven Earth-sized planets packed around a dim star.
The Earth’s magnetic field acts like a giant instrument playing magnetic music.
Hidden Figures is certainly inspirational, but the racial politics of the space programme were hardly so easily settled.
The Outer Space Treaty, now 50 years old, has so far never been violated. But things could be about to change.
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