Pushing up the planet

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Neutron stars can suffer quakes far more powerful than anything on Earth

JD Savage investigates a mysterious, invisible force that rules the universe. Just watch out it doesn’t pull you in!

Scientists distinguish between weight and mass, which may seem pedantic until you see what happens on a world where gravity is radically different to Earth’s

Mars once had vast oceans on its surface. Then its magnetic field weakened, its atmosphere thinned, and its water vanished. But the numbers don’t add up. For the Red Planet to have transformed from a

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