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Prepare to jump to light speed: Inside the mission to go interstellar

Space

Prepare to jump to light speed: Inside the mission to go interstellar

Proxima Centauri is 4 light years away. Ambitious space mission Breakthrough Starshot is developing a way to push spacecraft there at a fifth of the speed of light

Features

Curiosity rovr

Space

Curiosity is entering what may be the best area to find life on Mars

News

A cow standing in a field

Life

We could soon make animals with cells that contain two genetic codes

News

Kepler-452b

Space

We’ve found 4000 exoplanets but almost zero are right for life

News

Dead whale found with 40 kilograms of plastic in its stomach

Earth

Dead whale found with 40 kilograms of plastic in its stomach

News

Secretive new frog species from ancient lineage discovered in India

Life

Secretive new frog species from ancient lineage discovered in India

News

Submarine

Technology

China plans world's first deep sea base, complete with robot subs

News

Video

Britain's wildlife needs you

Video

The hidden cities revealed by lasers

Video

The hidden cities revealed by lasers

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We've dug up tiny animals from beneath a frozen Antarctic lake

Life

We've dug up tiny animals from beneath a frozen Antarctic lake

The discovery of preserved carcasses of tiny crustaceans and tardigrades beneath Lake Mercer suggests biologically complex life may survive deep beneath the ice

News

Video

I want to believe: An astronomer's view of aliens

Video

Life

Fetal sharks may look for food by swimming around inside their mothers

News

Video

Lewis Dartnell: Astrobiology – the search for alien life

Video

Video

Didier Queloz: The search for habitable exoplanets

Video