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Claims of alien life are overhyped – and miss the real accomplishment

Whenever there’s even a slight chance that an exoplanet shows signs of biological activity, people understandably get excited – but it’s never been aliens, and we shouldn’t jump to conclusions, not this time or the next, says Chris Lintott

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Most accurate space clock to launch – and count down to destruction

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An artist?s impression of the Martian settlement SpaceX has envisioned. Image: SpaceX https://www.spacex.com/humanspaceflight/mars/

Technology

Inside the outlandish, futuristic dreams of the tech bros

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How long is a day on Uranus? Slightly longer than we thought, it seems

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Tom Hanks plays Commander Jim Lovell in Apollo 13

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Astronomer reviews the sci-fi movies that get creative with physics

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We could make solar panels on the moon by melting lunar dust

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Physics

How nothing could destroy the universe

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Space

NASA cut $420 million for climate science, moon modelling and more

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Asteroid 2024 YR4 could still hit the moon, JWST observations reveal

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to observe asteroid 2024 YR4, which earlier this year seemed to be at risk of hitting Earth in 2032. Earth is now safe, but astronomers are cheering on a possible collision with the moon

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Little red dots seen by JWST might be a kind of black hole 'star'

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Dolphins greet astronauts after SpaceX Dragon capsule splashdown

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An early hint of cosmic dawn has been seen in a distant galaxy

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German company set for first commercial rocket launch from Europe

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