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Tale of world of supersmart spiders takes Clarke SF award

Space

Tale of world of supersmart spiders takes Clarke SF award

This year's winner of the Arthur C. Clarke award is a story of two kinds of alien – one of them human - trying to understand each another

Culture

illustration of a planet in silhouette with a star behind

Space

Proxima b: 7 big questions about the new planet next door

Analysis

Proxima B

Space

Getting to Proxima b might become an existential requirement

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a yellow sail, a bit like a starfish

Space

Interstellar probes will be eroded on the way to Alpha Centauri

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stereo B

Space

NASA gets in touch with spacecraft two years after it vanished

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Contrails from planes

Earth

Chemtrails conspiracy theory gets put to the ultimate test

Comment

China's quantum communications satellite launches

Space

China launches world's first quantum communications satellite

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The brightest stellar wildfire hosts impossibly huge stars

Space

The brightest stellar wildfire hosts impossibly huge stars

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A drone hovers in a forest

Technology

Expensive drones take flying lessons from cheaper stunt doubles

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Triple signal of ‘alien megastructure’ star baffles astronomers

Space

Triple signal of ‘alien megastructure’ star baffles astronomers

A new dimming signal makes the famous star even more challenging to explain, but astronomers aren’t claiming that it’s aliens… yet

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Space

Inside NASA's towering rocket factory before deep space mission

Regulars

Space

Jupiter's Great Red Spot is making its atmosphere hotter

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Space

Bye bye Philae! Comet team to lose touch with lander for good

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Space

Astronauts prepare for Mars mission at the bottom of the sea

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