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f you’ve ever read anything about cosmology, you’ll have come across an astonishing statistic: all the matter around us, everything we see and touch, every star and gas cloud and planet, makes up just

The Universe is a big and complex beast, and doesn’t always behave in the way we might expect. So it’s not surprising that there are many misconceptions and misunderstandings about space. Some common

On 29 July 2021, more than four centuries after the invention of the telescope, the man who initiated a revolution in astronomy was finally honoured with a life-sized bronze statue. In the herb garden

Journey across the universe – without leaving the UK

Two contrasting visions of humanity’s future in space

The problems started with six little red dots. Six small fuzzy spots, among thousands of others, were enough to suddenly bring everything into question. The dots appeared in images captured by the Jam