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There is no surface anywhere on Jupiter to land on or crash into, just hydrogen that…

The deep cobalt Neptune everyone recognises is largely an artefact of image processing…

Ultra-processed foods now make up almost sixty percent of what the average American…

You would expect astronauts to shrug off something as ordinary as plain travel…

There's a group of seventeen obscure metals called the rare earths, tucked inside every…

On a February morning in 2013, a rock from space the size of a house exploded over a…

The flying taxi has been "five years away" for most of our lives, and then it arrived…

Off the coast of South Africa, orcas have learned to kill great white sharks with…

Voyager 2 flew so far below the plane of the solar system after Neptune that only one…

Humanity consumes roughly 50 billion tonnes of sand and gravel every year—more than any…
