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A field of asteroids, known as the Trojans, are captured in the
How our knowledge of these worlds beyond the Solar System has exploded in the last three decades
WORLD SPACE WEEK SPECIAL
It’s difficult to fully grasp the enormity and extremity of Jupiter. The planet – a striped behemoth of swirling gas with around 100 moons, one of which is larger than Mercury – dominates the Solar Sy
A round-up of the strangest science stories from around the world.
This October marks 50 years since a heavily shielded spacecraft, the Soviet Union’s Venera 9, parachuted into the atmosphere of Venus. Then, having landed, it did something extraordinary: it beamed ba
