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Rhiannon Adam, United Kingdom, Finalist, Professional competition, Creative, Sony World Photography Awards 2025

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Eerie image of a space-bound rocket among photo contest finalists

This photograph of a Soyuz rocket bathed in mist was selected as a finalist for the Sony World Photography Awards 2025 competition

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Physics

Why exactly is the quantum world so weird?

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US military wants to grow giant biological structures in space

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US military wants to grow giant biological structures in space

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The best new science fiction books of March 2025

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The best new science fiction books of March 2025

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Spacecraft may need to be dirtier to keep astronauts healthy

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Jennifer Walshe

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New ��˾þ� recommends Jennifer Walshe: Zero-gravity opera

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How does astronomy fit into astrophysics – and does it matter?

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How does astronomy fit into astrophysics – and does it matter?

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Images that capture our timeless obsession with the moon

Images that capture our timeless obsession with the moon

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Maybe NASA’s SLS should be cancelled – but not by Elon Musk

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How the XB-1 aircraft went supersonic without a sonic boom

When the experimental XB-1 aircraft achieved supersonic speeds on a test flight, it did not create a disruptive sonic boom – thanks to a physics phenomenon called the Mach cutoff

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Distant exoplanet may be the most volcanic world ever found

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How meteorites are rewriting the history of the solar system

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Astronomers have spotted the largest known object in the universe

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Physics

The 100-year-old symmetry theorem that is still changing physics today

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