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For most of us the Hale-Bopp comet was a once-in-a-lifetime sight in the spring of…

We have more accurate maps of the surface of Mars and the Moon than of the floor of our…

On 1 September 1859 a solar storm hit Earth hard enough that auroras were seen over…

Eighteen metres under a field in Romania sits a cave whose air no human can breathe for…

A woman who hadn't spoken an intelligible word in twenty years, silenced by a stroke…

In a University of Chicago lab, a rat left free to roam learned to open a tube and…

A spider in the Himalayas wears the same red smiling face as Hawaii's famous happy-face…

The software that landed men on the Moon was not loaded onto the Apollo Guidance…

Opportunity was built for a ninety-day mission and a target of six hundred metres, and…

How does a planet spin so slowly that a single day there lasts longer than its entire…
