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The first commercial space stations will start orbiting Earth in 2026

For nearly three decades, the International Space Station has been the only destination in low Earth orbit, but that will change this year. Could it be the start of a thriving economy in space?

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

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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.

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Inside the wild experiments physicists would do with zero limits

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Why we only recently discovered space is dark not bright

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Why we only recently discovered space is dark not bright

For centuries, Europeans thought that eternal daylight saturated the cosmos. The shift to a dark universe has had a profound psychological impact upon us

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Earth

The audacious quest to light up the sky with artificial auroras

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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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Why quantum mechanics says the past isn’t real

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