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Elon Musk reveals Starship test rocket that looks like 1950s sci-fi

Elon Musk reveals Starship test rocket that looks like 1950s sci-fi

11 January 2019

The SpaceX founder says the suborbital rocket should fly in the coming weeks, and is designed to test landing technology for a larger orbital rocket


The Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout seen from Hayabusa 2

Third lander arrives on asteroid Ryugu with only 16 hours to live

3 October 2018

Japan has just dropped off its third lander on the surface of the asteroid Ryugu. It has less than a day to complete its mission before its batteries run out


The rocky surface of asteroid Ryugu

Japanese space hoppers capture the sun moving across an asteroid sky

27 September 2018

Japanese landers on the asteroid Ryugu have sent back more stunning images and video of the alien landscape


Asteroid Ryugu

Japanese space hoppers reveal glorious sci-fi vision of asteroid Ryugu

24 September 2018

Japan's Hayabusa 2 spacecraft has released its two small MINERVA-II rovers on to the surface of the asteroid Ryugu, and the pair have sent back some amazing images


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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


Halo Jones: return of the 50th-century galactic adventurer

Halo Jones: return of the 50th-century galactic adventurer

18 May 2018

One of the great comic book characters of all time, and a pioneer for all women who seek powerful roles, gets a new lease of life


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Science Fiction: slavery stereotypes, and a new M. John Harrison

4 December 2017

From challenging stereotypes about slavery to the necessity of finding any kind of exit from a mundane life, escape dominates new sci-fi


Four Japanese couples posed on a hilltop

Science fiction picks sound wedding bells and other alarms

2 October 2017

People are stronger together, according to the latest crop of novels by Maggie Shen King, M. T. Anderson and Dave Hutchinson


Robots in Into the Unknown exhibition

This science fiction trip is delightful, confusing – and risky

9 June 2017

Pinning down science fiction in a new exhibition may be a hopeless task. Just let Into the Unknown inspire you to boldly explore your own new frontiers


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