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The science-fiction films to look forward to in 2026

With a new 28 Days Later movie and a new Dune, not to mention films from Stephen Spielberg and Ridley Scott, this is shaping up to be a vintage year for sci-fi, says Simon Ings

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The first commercial space stations will start orbiting Earth in 2026

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Star that seemed to vanish more than 130 years ago is found again

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Space

BepiColombo mission will start to unpick Mercury's secrets in 2026

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NASA's Artemis II mission aims to return astronauts to moon in 2026

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The century-long hunt for the gigantic meteorite that vanished

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The century-long hunt for the gigantic meteorite that vanished

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The best space pictures of 2025, from supernovae to moon landings

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The essential guide to proving we’ve found alien life

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The essential guide to proving we’ve found alien life

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3D6BBB4 Comet Lemmon photographed from northern Italy on 26th October 2025.

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Comets were on fire this year – for better or worse

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Scientists inside a science base in the Moon conduct a variety of humorous experiments. We see a cat chasing after a giant laser beam; a scientist being eaten by a venus fly trap, a star falling through a Christmas tree as a scientist tries and fails to put it on top, a scientist going to a 'moonshine' bar, robots attending a seminar, a scientist trapping a human brain in a forcefield, and scientists stepping through portals. In the sky above the spaceship, Santa is being abducted by aliens.

Physics

Inside the wild experiments physicists would do with zero limits

From a particle smasher encircling the moon to an “impossible” laser, five scientists reveal the experiments they would run in a world powered purely by imagination

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Space

Why we only recently discovered space is dark not bright

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Earth

The audacious quest to light up the sky with artificial auroras

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Space

Odd elements in supernova blast might have implications for alien life

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The four best science documentaries of 2025

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