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Lunar Crater Radio Telescope: Illuminating the Cosmic Dark Ages This illustration depicts a conceptual Lunar Crater Radio Telescope on the Moon?s far side. The early-stage concept is being studied under grant funding from the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts program but is not a NASA mission. Credit: Vladimir Vustyansky

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Could a huge lunar telescope be our best chance of spotting aliens?

In this latest instalment of Future Chronicles, an imagined history of future inventions, Rowan Hooper explores the advances that meant an optical telescope with an effective mirror size of 3000 km could be built on the moon

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The northern lights, or aurora borealis, in the UK in 2024

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Why auroras are so much brighter and more easily visible recently

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CPR in space could be made easier by chest compression machines

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New moon discovered orbiting Uranus is its smallest one

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Physics

Jupiter's moon Ganymede could be a giant dark matter detector

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6 of the most fascinating moments in the life of our solar system

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6 of the most fascinating moments in the life of our solar system

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A planet the size of Saturn could orbit the nearest sun-like star

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2H2KWEA Big Bang to Present. Stages in the history of the Universe after the Big Bang. At 300, 000 years, matter and radiation decouple, and the Universe becomes transparent for the first time. The first galaxies form at around 300 million years after the Big Bang, but the exact time period is uncertain. At an age of 9 billion years the Solar System formed. Finally, 13.7 billion years after the Big Bang we arrive at the present day. The Universe is still expanding and evolving.

Physics

What happens to light's energy when it redshifts? It's complicated

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Mathematics

These centuries-old equations predict flowing fluid – until they don’t

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Chaotic streams of energy appear to slice through space

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Is gravity a new type of force that arises from cosmic entropy?

Decades ago, a renegade physicist suggested that gravity isn't so much a force as just a byproduct of the universe's tendency to get more disordered. Now this idea might finally be testable

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Space

The cosmos is vast, so how do we measure it?

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Bioplastic habitats on Mars could be built from algae

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New Horizons images enable first test of interstellar navigation

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Where does time actually come from?

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