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

Technology

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

A more precise definition of the second is crucial to all sorts of physical measurements – but to get there, scientists have to pack up their extraordinarily fragile optical clocks and take them on tour

Features

Physics

How nothing could destroy the universe

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Space

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

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Space

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

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Space

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)

Space

Dolphins greet astronauts after SpaceX Dragon capsule splashdown

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Space

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

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Space

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?

Space

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

Features

Space

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

The Big Wheel, discovered using the James Webb Space Telescope, formed just 2 billion years after the big bang - surprisingly early for a spiral galaxy of a similar size to our Milky Way

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Mind

Memory illusion makes you think events occurred earlier than they did

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Space

See a shimmering hourglass-shaped star system in exquisite detail

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Space

Eerie image of a space-bound rocket among photo contest finalists

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Space

Â鶹´«Ã½ recommends Helios, Luke Jerram's giant sun sculpture

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