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Tom Hanks plays Commander Jim Lovell in Apollo 13

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Astronomer reviews the sci-fi movies that get creative with physics

Space is a favourite setting for many Hollywood films, but just how accurate are their portrayals?

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Elizabeth Ruth Belville receives a timekeeping certificate from an official at the Royal Greenwich Observatory, circa 1903. Once Belville has the accuracy of her watch, which she calls 'Arnold', confirmed in this way, her task is to 'take the time' round businesses in the West End and City of London. Belville's work was the means of ensuring standard time in the city before the advent of radio.

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Ruth Belville: How the Greenwich Time Lady kept London ticking

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We could make solar panels on the moon by melting lunar dust

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The epic quest to redefine the second using the world's best clocks

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The epic quest to redefine the second using the world's best clocks

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Physics

How nothing could destroy the universe

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NASA cut $420 million for climate science, moon modelling and more

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Asteroid 2024 YR4 could still hit the moon, JWST observations reveal

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Little red dots seen by JWST might be a kind of black hole 'star'

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Support teams work around a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft shortly after it landed with NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, Butch Wilmore, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov aboard in the water off the coast of Tallahassee, Florida, Tuesday, March 18, 2025. Hague, Gorbunov, Williams, and Wilmore are returning from a long-duration science expedition aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Keegan Barber)

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Dolphins greet astronauts after SpaceX Dragon capsule splashdown

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An early hint of cosmic dawn has been seen in a distant galaxy

A galaxy inside a bubble may be evidence that the universe was starting to become transparent 330 million years after the big bang

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German company set for first commercial rocket launch from Europe

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Is our cosmos just a membrane on the edge of a far stranger reality?

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Giant Milky Way-like galaxy formed unusually soon after the big bang

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Mind

Memory illusion makes you think events occurred earlier than they did

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