Asteroid Ryugu has no dust on it and we don’t know why
22 August 2019
The most detailed pictures yet from the asteroid Ryugu show it has no dust, which is very strange. There are at least three competing possible explanations
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Japan wants to launch the first ever rover to visit a Martian moon
20 June 2019
In 2024, Japan wants to send a rover to one of Mars’s moons, Phobos and Deimos. Samples taken there could help us sort out how they formed and whether they hold ice
The moon revealed as an object of endless fascination and desire
22 May 2019
A rich book by Oliver Morton delves into science, poetry, art and sci-fi to create a dazzling paean to the past, present and future of the moon
High Life’s sex and black holes sci-fi intrigues without satisfying
22 May 2019
High Life, a sci-fi tale of black holes, redemption and sex, intrigues while leaving big questions unanswered – like who does the disembodied hand belong to?
Tomorrow Inc: how Stanley Kubrick designed the future
26 April 2019
Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition comes to London's Design Museum, and in its wake a renewed fascination for the futuristic design culture of the 1960s and 1970s.
Prepare to jump to light speed: Inside the mission to go interstellar
10 April 2019
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
Japan’s Hayabusa 2 spacecraft just bombed an asteroid
5 April 2019
The Hayabusa 2 spacecraft has shot an explosive projectile at the asteroid Ryugu to release dust and collect a sample
Sorry, but NASA probably isn't sending astronauts to the moon in 2024
3 April 2019
The Trump administration has set NASA an ambitious goal of returning to the moon, but the agency doesn't have enough money or the right spacecraft to achieve this
SpaceX is about to launch a dummy astronaut called Ripley to the ISS
1 March 2019
SpaceX plans an uncrewed test flight of the Dragon spacecraft on 2 March, which will carry cargo and an astronaut dummy to the International Space Station
The Wandering Earth review: Epic Chinese sci-fi film heralds a new era
20 February 2019
The Wandering Earth, an adaptation of Cixin Liu's story of humans struggling to move Earth to a new home, is coming to Netflix. Our review: Despite a few science bloopers, it's cinematic gold
