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The best new science fiction books of December 2023

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The best new science fiction books of December 2023

A novelisation of Zack Snyder’s film Rebel Moon, a new Star Wars novel and the much-anticipated second spy thriller from Terry Hayes are among the great science fiction reads out in December

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Key molecule for life may have formed on interstellar ice

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Majestic photo shows China's Tiangong space station in all its glory

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Mandatory Credit: Photo by Graeme Whipps/Shutterstock (4301807b) Pic shows the Geminid meteor shower over Pitcaple in Aberdeenshire on Sunday evening Dec 14th. A Scottish photographer has managed to get some pictures of the Geminid meteor shower on its FINAL night above the UK. Amateur astronomer Graeme Whipps picked up 13 meteors on camera in the dramatic display above Pitcaple in Aberdeenshire last night (Sun).

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How to spot this year's Geminid meteor shower

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Space flight may increase erectile dysfunction among astronauts

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Artist's impression of WASP-107b and its parent star

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Fluffy exoplanet blasted by its sun has clouds that rain sand

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An artist's impression of three merging black holes

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Why the quantum universe is weirder than you think

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CAPTION Panels A and B show the side-on and underneath view of a hummingbird passing through an aperture sideways. C and D show the same views of the hummingbird passing thorough an aperture like a bullet with its wings swept back. CREDIT Marc Badger https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-lookup/doi/10.1242/jeb.245643

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Hummingbirds have two amazing ways to fly through tiny gaps

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location of distant black hole

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Astronomers have found the most distant black hole ever confirmed

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Artistic representation of how the Milky Way-like galaxy ceers-2112 would look from Earth

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Distant Milky Way-like galaxy is older than we thought possible

The most distant Milky Way-like galaxy ever seen – a barred spiral galaxy – has been spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope and it is more than 11 billion years old

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Searching for life on Mars isn’t worth the risk to Earth

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Walking on the moon: candid photos from astronaut Tim Peake’s new book

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The best new science fiction books of November 2023

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Chicxulub: The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs

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