The counterintuitive cosmos

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

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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

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The prospect of life on Mars – Earth’s planetary next-door neighbour, an alien world that betrays tantalising hints of a watery past – has bewitched humanity for centuries. From the ‘canals’ seen by a