War in space may happen soon, but it won't be what you expect
11 April 2018
The US is making noises about increasingly militarising space, but orbital conflict won’t be a battle of spaceships and bombs
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The neon swirls that show how a map of our galaxy is made
11 April 2018
The Gaia satellite rotates as it scans the entire sky, creating beautiful patterns as it makes the best 3D map of our galaxy we have ever had
Astronauts could 3D print tools from their own processed faeces
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Astronauts on long missions won't be able to bring all their tools with them. A new way of turning faeces into 3D-printable plastic may solve that problem
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Just after the big bang, waves of neutrinos and other matter raced across the cosmos. Those neutrinos reached forward in time to dictate where galaxies form now
The centre of our galaxy may be swarming with 10,000 black holes
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We knew that the centre of the Milky Way was home to a supermassive black hole. But now we’ve also spotted evidence of 10,000 smaller black holes flanking it
