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Lab imitations of the unobservable cosmos can be genuinely insightful

24 May 2023

Despite the obvious caveats, physicists are right to use fluids and other physical analogues to search for fresh insights about extreme cosmic phenomena, from black holes to the big bang

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Why we should go back to the moon – and this time to build a home

14 September 2022

Achieving a lunar outpost is important not as a means of escaping our home planet, but learning better ways to thrive on it

Alien life may exist on Venus but intelligence could be harder to find

30 September 2020

Phosphine in Venus’s atmosphere could be a sign of alien microbes, but we will probably never discover an intelligent alien civilisation

Cosmology's new advances show our voyage of discovery is far from over

29 July 2020

An incredible map of the universe and mind-bending revelations about a supermassive black hole are evidence that the advance of science is far from over – it has plenty of new shores yet to explore

The moon race was about short-termism and control – we can do better

10 July 2019

The cold war race to the moon pitted nations against each other. As countries and companies gear up to return, we need to question what their motivations are

At last, US dream of resuming human space launches are within reach

6 March 2019

For nearly a decade the US has relied on Russia to get its astronauts into space. With the test of SpaceX's crew capsule, it looks set to bring launches home again soon