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The best new science fiction books of March 2024

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The best new science fiction books of March 2024

With a new Adrian Tchaikovsky, Mars-set romance from Natasha Pulley and a high-concept thriller from Stuart Turton due to hit shelves, there is plenty of great new science fiction to be reading in March

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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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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

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An artist's impression of Orion re-entering Earth's atmosphere

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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

A type of distant planet long thought to have water oceans on its surface may be too hot for liquid water, and magma oceans might be more likely

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Why physicists are rethinking the route to a theory of everything

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Why it takes so much work to grow plants in space

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Starship launch: Next SpaceX flight test is expected this month

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The best new science fiction books of February 2024

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