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Antarctica has around four hundred known subglacial lakes: bodies of liquid water trapped beneath kilometres of ice, kept from freezing by geothermal heat from below and the insulating weight…
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The Voyager probes launched in 1977 to study the outer solar system, and they did that job extraordinarily well, returning the first detailed images of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and…
Most claims about remote places come with an asterisk. The remotest inhabited island still has a harbour and a supply ship. The remotest town has a road, or at least…
Between 2009 and 2013, a space telescope stared at a single patch of sky and monitored the brightness of more than a hundred thousand stars, looking for the tiny, regular…
In the autumn of 2017, astronomers spotted something that had never been seen before: an object passing through our solar system that had come from another star. Everything we had…
On the night of August 15, 1977, a radio telescope in Ohio was doing what it did every night: silently scanning the sky, listening for radio signals from the depths…