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New Scientist - Space
New Scientist - Space
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The best science fiction novels to look forward to in 2025
A Ken Liu, two Adrian Tchaikovsky novels, Succession-style drama (with added telepathy) and a Polish epic. Emily H. Wilson surveys 2025’s sci-fi
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The stargazing events to look forward to in 2025
From auroras to partial eclipses of the sun, Leah Crane is planning out the astronomical events she will be watching next year
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The Vera C. Rubin Observatory gets started next year. I can't wait
Around the middle of 2025, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will begin its mission to help us better understand the cosmos. There's a lot to look forward to, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
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These are all of the missions heading to the moon in 2025
From Firefly’s Blue Ghost lander to SpaceX’s Starship Human Landing System, around a dozen spacecraft teams have their sights on the moon
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Could 2025 be the year we finally start to understand dark energy?
A map of 31 million galaxies created by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument will be released next year, and could shed light on the origins of this mysterious force
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NASA’s Mars helicopter was grounded in 2024 after surprise success
The Ingenuity autonomous helicopter surpassed all expectations to fly dozens of missions over several years on the Red Planet, only stopping this year when an accident damaged one of its rotors
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The best space images from 2024
This year has delivered some awe-inspiring imagery of space, from the James Webb Space Telescope’s stunning shots of faraway stars and galaxies to images of the skies taken from here on planet Earth
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2024 review: Stunning JWST images that reveal the beauty of space
In 2024 the James Webb Space Telescope released stunning new images of the beauty of space, here are the best
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Earth had a temporary mini-moon that was a chunk of the real moon
An asteroid orbiting near our planet that temporarily became our second moon seems to have come from the actual moon, hinting that a hidden population of lunar rocks is drifting in space
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Saturn’s rings may be far older than we thought
The age of the rings that encircle Saturn is under dispute thanks to calculations that show they could have been formed billions – rather than millions – of years ago