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Planet of the Apes

Don't miss: Apes get ideas, hole becomes art, games lose boundaries

5 September 2018

A 50th-anniversary screening of Planet of the Apes, the latest installment of Neil deGrasse Tyson's podcast, and a game where everything is left to the players to decide


Liu

Exclusive: Chinese sci-fi genius Cixin Liu on humanity's deadly future

5 September 2018

The future is bright for our species, mostly because we kill everything in our path, says China's first winner of the Hugo science-fiction award


Earth

The clues to finding alien life could lie in Earth's deep past

5 September 2018

Our hunt for life on other planets is based on what it looks like today, but early Earth used to be so different. What if we are missing some vital clues?


Europa

Mystery cold spot on Jupiter's moon Europa could be 'almost anything'

3 September 2018

The first full temperature map of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa has revealed one spot that seems colder than anywhere else on the surface - but we have no clue why


The tracks of Opportunity rover on Mars

NASA has just 45 days to save Opportunity rover after huge Mars storm

31 August 2018

The planet-wide dust storm on Mars that’s stranded the Opportunity rover since June is subsiding, and NASA has given engineers just 45 more days to wake it up


Dwarf galaxy

Dark matter blasted by star explosions may explain misfit galaxies

30 August 2018

Some misfit galaxies don’t seem to conform to our standard model of the universe, but it may be because star formation and supernovae push dark matter around


US Vice President making a speech in front of a NASA logo, an American flag and a picture of the moon

Why an orbiting moon station is the worst idea of the new space age

29 August 2018

US Vice President Mike Pence says a habitable base orbiting the moon will be built and in use by 2024. It's a pointless distraction, warns Mars Society president Robert Zubrin


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