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During his second-ever spacewalk, European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano felt water creeping across his face – and ...

Two landers from a private US company will be part of an armada to asteroid Apophis when it flies past Earth in 2029. Apophis ...

The same principles that help astronauts stay strong in microgravity can help us all resist the slow collapse of ageing – and ...

One in 10 homes tested in the UK, Italy and the Netherlands have dangerous levels of benzene because of slow leaks from gas ...

CERN is working on building an antimatter delivery service. The project passed a big test by successfully transporting 92 ...

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Astronomers have found a 710-metre-wide asteroid that spins once every 1.9 minutes, so fast that it should have spun itself ...

Fifty years ago, Richard Dawkins shared an irresistible scientific metaphor with the world that modernised and democratised ...

As the science fiction author publishes the latest novel in his Children of Time series, Children of Strife, he talks to ...