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NASA’s Artemis moon exploration programme is getting a major makeover

As it faces yet another set of delays, NASA’s Artemis programme is being shaken up, delaying an actual moon landing in favour of smaller, faster steps forward

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How worried should you be about an asteroid smashing into Earth?

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Our verdict on Juice by Tim Winton: Australian climate novel is a hit

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Our verdict on Juice by Tim Winton: Australian climate novel is a hit

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From images taken by NASA spacecrafts, this picture mosaic was created of six of the planets in our solar system and the Earth's moon. In the foreground is the Earth rising over the lunar surface with the sun flare at the edge of Earth. Venus is the first planet above the moon, and at the top left to right are the planets Jupiter, Mercury, Mars and Saturn. Photo credits are as follows: Earth - Apollo 17; Lunar Surface - Apollo 8; Sun - Apollo 12; Venus - Pioneer Venus; Jupiter - Voyager I; Mercury - Mariner 10; Saturn - Pioneer 11.

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What to read this week: Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean by Dagomar Degroot

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Astronauts practise tasks in simulated moon environment and underwater. Astronauts have been practising walking on the Moon as their next-generation spacesuit passes milestone testing. NASA astronauts and spacesuit engineers recently simulated lunar surface operations and tasks underwater wearing the new suits, built by Axiom Space, to demonstrate safety and mobility. The space agency reported Thursday (Feb 12) that the spacesuit has passed a contractor-led technical review and is hoped to be used for the Artemis III mission as NASA prepares to send humans to the Moon???s South Pole for the first time. NASA said:

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Amazing sneak peek of NASA's spacesuit tests as moon mission nears

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Moises Arias

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Return of Fallout, Paradise and Silo fuels passion for bunker sci-fi

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Man behind a curtain back

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Exploring sci-fi treats from George Saunders and Matthew Kressel

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Illustration depicting a tidal disruption event (TDE). TDEs are causes when a star passes close to a supermassive black hole and get torn apart by the gravity of the latter. The debris forms a fan-shaped pattern around the black hole before eventually falling in.

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A new 'brief history' of the universe paints a wide picture

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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, Sony Pictures

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The Beauty -- Pictured: Bella Hadid as Ruby. CR: Philippe Antonello/FX

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The Beauty may be horror TV but it misses the genre's point

In The Beauty, mysterious deaths of models are linked to a new drug and a sexually transmitted infection, both of which kill as they beautify. But if you want great body horror, this isn't the place to look, concludes Bethan Ackerley

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The weird rules of temperature get even stranger in the quantum realm

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The best new science fiction books of February 2026

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Our verdict on Annie Bot: This novel about a sex robot split opinions

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Read an extract from Juice by Tim Winton

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