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‘The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, it seems like an awful waste of space,’ wrote the American astronomer and author Carl Sagan in his book, Contact. Ever since humans first huddled

Between their rivalries and collaborations, how have the world’s top national space agencies contributed to our knowledge of the cosmos?

Long ignored by scientists, cosmic dust is becoming an increasingly important field of study

Your dusty, distant destination awaits, with unique geology that reveals billions of years of cosmic collisions

Modern science is inextricably linked to mathematics. I’m not just referring to numbers here – for example numerical measurements of things like time, speed and energy – although that’s an important p

Of the hundreds of thousands of asteroids in our solar system, it is all too feasible that one could strike Earth. If scientists discover this is likely to happen, what are our options for defending ourselves – and who will make the key decisions? Tomas Weber reports