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How did the universe begin?

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How did the universe begin?

Why are we here? How did the universe begin? According to the Boshongo people of central Africa, before us there was only darkness, water and the great god Bumba.
Where do meteorites come from?

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Where do meteorites come from?

astronaut on moon

Space

NASA is going back to the moon but most people in the US don't want to

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Tiangong space station

LightSail 2

Space

SpaceX is about to launch a sail propelled through space by sunshine

News

Mercury

Space

How Mercury and Venus can guide our hunt for alien life on exoplanets

Features

Don't miss: men on the moon, robots in orbit and museums in the street

Space

Don't miss: men on the moon, robots in orbit and museums in the street

Culture

A comet in the solar system

Space

ESA plans triple spacecraft to lurk in wait for a speedy comet

News

Albert Einstein smoking a pip

People in Science

Albert Einstein

OSIRIS-REx spacecraft captures closest ever image of asteroid Bennu

Space

OSIRIS-REx spacecraft captures closest ever image of asteroid Bennu

NASA has captured its closest and most detailed image yet of Bennu, a 78 billion-kilogram asteroid which approaches close to Earth every six years

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Cosmic microwave background

Definition

General relativity

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Hubble Space Telescope

Space

Mission to Mars: The complete guide to getting to the Red Planet

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