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Space

October 2024

  • John Mc Fall poses with his European Space Agency class mates of Meganne Christian and Rosemary Coogan

    To boldly go: John McFall hopes to be the first astronaut with a disability

    European Space Agency testing Paralympian sprinter to see how conditions in space would affect his prosthesis
  • T Coronae Borealis star system

    Starwatch
    Starwatch: Still waiting for nova T Coronae Borealis to blow up

    The recurrent binary-star nova goes boom approximately every 80 years and we’ve been on alert for it since April

    • European space mission to examine Nasa asteroid impact site

    • Asteroid that eradicated dinosaurs not a one-off, say scientists

    • Comet last seen in stone age to make closest approach to Earth

September 2024

  • Starwatch chart

    Starwatch
    Starwatch: Pisces emerges in the eastern sky as the nights lengthen

  • An asteroid burns up over the Philippines last month, lighting the sky up and with an orange tail. It had been spotted curving towards Earth 10 hours earlier.

    The asteroid hunters: how new technology will help save Earth from a catastrophic collision

  • Maggie Aderin Pocock

    This much I know
    Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock: ‘The universe doesn’t frighten me. Words do’

  • Satellites in space

    European twin satellite mission bids to create total solar eclipse on demand

  • Nuclear blast could save Earth from large asteroid, scientists say

  • Starwatch
    Starwatch: Night and day reach same length after autumnal equinox

  • The week in theatre; The Lightest Element; The Real Ones – review

  • Grenville Turner obituary

  • Earth will briefly have a second ‘mini moon’ this autumn

  • Pair of huge plasma jets spotted blasting out of gigantic black hole

  • Supermoon with partial lunar eclipse charms stargazers across the world – video

  • September Supermoon: the best place and time to see tonight’s bigger and brighter full moon

  • The Lightest Element review – tribute to trailblazing astronomer expected to make the tea

  • Starwatch
    Starwatch: Partial lunar eclipse offers small-scale drama

  • Billionaire returns to Earth after first privately funded spacewalk – video

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