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

In 1892, astronomer Edward Emerson Barnard thought he saw a bright star near Venus, but then it vanished. We may now know why

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Space

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

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Space

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

Space

The century-long hunt for the gigantic meteorite that vanished

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Space

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.

Space

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

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Why we only recently discovered space is dark not bright

Space

Why we only recently discovered space is dark not bright

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Aurora Borealis dancing over Tromso Urban Skyline. Tromso Panorama and winter night landscape with Northern Lights (Aurora Polaris) on a cold night, with starry sky, polar lights and snowcapped mountains on Kvaloya Island in the background. Cityscape with Brightly Street Light of the Arctic Capital, Northern Norway

Earth

The audacious quest to light up the sky with artificial auroras

How a Finnish physicist named Karl Lemström once became obsessed with recreating the aurora borealis from scratch – and may have ended up creating something even more intriguing

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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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Physics

Why quantum mechanics says the past isn’t real

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Physics

Black hole entropy hints at a surprising truth about our universe

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