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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…

Many phones, cars and AI systems depend on advanced chips from one island, and if that…

Did a Sun-like star quietly swallow one of its own planets, leaving behind a spike of…

How does an animal weighing less than a chocolate bar fly 13,000 kilometres across the…

Scientists expected the sun to enter a period of historic quiet after 2008, when solar…

When Mariner 4 sent back the first close-up of Mars in 1965, the printer was too slow…

Two and a half kilometres beneath the Antarctic ice, a cubic kilometre of frozen water…

The second closest potentially habitable planet to Earth is not around a famous star
