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Catch The Last Total Lunar Eclipse Before 2025

by Gabriella Sotelo (November 7, 2022) The second lunar eclipse of 2022 will occur on Tuesday, and will be visible...

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The countdown to Webb’s first full-colour images begins

John Bader25th June, 2022 After 25 years of innovation, invention and perseverance, and many milestones along the way, the James...

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Space may be a vacuum, but it still needs a good sweep

By Harley Kelly11 February 2022 We have all heard the iconic Pinocchio song “When you wish upon a Star”, but...

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I, Science Radio – 22 July 2019

Starting with a look into the future of being able to mend broken hearts. Tanya Hughes has been talking to...

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Crowdsourcing the Stars

There are planets out there waiting for you to discover them. And when I say you, I mean you -...

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The Milky Way could contain at least 100 billion brown dwarfs

Over 100 billion – that is the number of brown dwarfs that could inhabit our galaxy. The huge figure was...

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Diary of a Researcher: Life at the (not-so-romantic) telescope

In the fourth part of our Diary of a researcher series, Josh Greenslade gives us an insight in to what...

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You Mars be joking

When Giovanni Schiaparelli tilted his telescope towards Mars in 1877, he was hardly expecting to answer one of humanity’s enduring...

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Podcast: Episode 3 – Lift off

Science writer and producer Piers Bizony takes a retrospective look at NASA's Space Shuttle Program, astrobiologist Lewis Dartnell discusses space...

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Podcast: 60 second science: Milky Way blowing bubbles

The Milky Way has been seen blowing a pair of giant gamma-ray bubbles. Measuring 50,000 light-years across and towering above...