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After spending over a decade mapping our Milky Way, the European Space Agency’s Gaia satellite is now being put into retirement. The spacecraft has almost depleted its reserves of the cold nitrogen ga

All About History

The spanish crusader el cid

How a Castilian knight fought Christians and Muslims alike to become a national icon

How It Works

What’s the oldest known disease?

Amazing answers to your curious questions

National Geographic Traveller (UK)

The danube

WHETHER BIKING TO CASTLES OR KAYAKING THROUGH GORGES, A TRIP CENTRED ON THIS RIVER IS THE EPITOME OF EUROPEAN ROMANCE.

Newsweek

All systems go

DONALD TRUMP WANTS TO SEND A U.S. CREW TO MARS BY THE END OF HIS PRESIDENTIAL TERM, A PLAN SPACEX BOSS ELON MUSK SAID IS ‘ DOABLE .’ ASTRONAUTS NEWSWEEK SPOKE TO QUESTIONED THE TIME FRAME BUT AGREED A FLIGHT TO THE RED PLANET WOULD SOON BE POSSIBLE

The Big Issue

Dorothea barron

We never had any money growing up. Nobody did. I grew up in Hampton, which is the village from which Hampton Court Palace is named. So Hampton Court Palace was where I walked with the dogs every morni

BBC Sky at Night Magazine

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