SpaceWe may have seen a 'dirty fireball' star explosion for the first time An incredibly powerful flash of X-rays spotted by the Einstein Probe telescope appears to be a kind of explosion first theorised more than 30 years ago ¿ìè¶ÌÊÓÆµ
SpaceWhy Yuri Gagarin wasn’t the first in space – and who beat him to it Everyone knows Yuri Gagarin as the first person to go to space. But was he? Literary historian Vladimir Brljak tells the tale of the intrepid balloonists who first flew beyond the blue terrestrial sky, challenging the definition of where our world begins to end Comment