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On 27 December 2024, the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) telescope in Rio Hurtado in Chile discovered asteroid 2024 YR4 speeding past Earth. The detection could have been too lat

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It was 15 years ago this month, on 13 June 2010, that the world watched as a beleaguered traveller finally arrived home, after a long and perilous journey back to land. The trouble began in 2003, as A

In early April, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope completed its third observing programme, a nine-month-long roster of research proposed by astronomers around the world. Among the many groundbreaking