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Apollo 15 astronaut Al Worden

Space

Win lunch with an astronaut

Apollo 15 astronaut Al Worden flew to the moon and holds two Guinness world records. Now you can have lunch with him in our exclusive competition

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A rendering of a Moon Express spacecraft

Space

Google-sponsored private moon race delayed for the fourth time

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illustration of factory work

Technology

Atomic Legoland: How to build wonder stuff from the atom up

Features

Tethered satellites could see the moon’s weird swirls up close

Space

Tethered satellites could see the moon’s weird swirls up close

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Moon’s magnetic field lasted twice as long as we thought it did

Space

Moon’s magnetic field lasted twice as long as we thought it did

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Nuclear reactors on rockets may fuel future crewed trips to Mars

Space

Nuclear reactors on rockets may fuel future crewed trips to Mars

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A white dust devil against the red Martian surface

Space

Mars’s surface hosts millions of towering dust devils every day

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Giant loner asteroids suggest baby planets formed quickly

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Giant loner asteroids suggest baby planets formed quickly

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Watering space cucumbers

Life

Space cucumbers may help plants grow better water-seeking roots

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Enormous exoplanet has an atmosphere hot enough to boil iron

Space

Enormous exoplanet has an atmosphere hot enough to boil iron

A planet nearly double the size of Jupiter and 900 light years away has a glowing stratosphere and an atmosphere hot enough that iron there exists as a vapour

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Space

Fast radio bursts may be dark matter ‘stars’ hitting black holes

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Earth

Quantum gravity detector will use atom clouds to survey for oil

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Technology

Time to bust the myth that Ada Lovelace was an overhyped aristo

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Space

First exomoon might have been spotted 4000 light years away

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