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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

A star near the centre of our galaxy reaches almost 3 per cent of the speed of light as…

Spend a year in space and your own body will betray you on the way home, starting with…

How does the closest planet to the Sun, with a surface that hits 430 degrees at noon…

How does a pond in Antarctica sitting at minus 50 degrees refuse to freeze, year after…

A deep-water shark's liver can account for up to 30 per cent of its total body mass…

A lion's tongue is covered in hollow, backward-pointing spines called papillae, widely…
