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The rotating Moon
Find out more about the Moon’s state of synchronous rotation
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Is there life on Mars?
Mars is often depicted as an inhospitable world, but is this true? Mario Toubes-Rodrigo, a PhD student at The Open University, explores...
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Enceladus: A habitable ice world?
Is it possible that Enceladus, one of the moons of Saturn, could potentially host life? Grace Richards, a PhD student at The Open University, explores...
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How the atmosphere sustains life on Earth
Why does the Earth’s atmosphere make it the perfect home for life? Professor Stephen Lewis explores...
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15 minutes on Mars
Have you ever looked up into the night sky at the red planet and wanted to know more? Now here’s your chance to explore Mars.
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Can Space Technologies solve the Sustainable Development Goals?
How can scientific and technological innovations solve global problems, and how can they be used inclusively? Devyani Gajjar explores…
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Hitching a ride on an asteroid to travel back to the birth of the Solar System
Right now there are two active asteroid sample-return missions in space...
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Asteroids
From robotic telescopes to an asteroid pretending to be a moon on Mars, here are four articles about asteroids.
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Can a space rock from Costa Rica reveal the origin of water on Earth?
Ross Findlay, a Cosmochemistry PhD Student in The School of Physical Sciences, explores different types of meteorites which have landed across our planet.
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Phobos – an asteroid masquerading as a moon of Mars?
Zoe Morland, a PhD student in The School of Physical Sciences, looks at Phobos - one of Mars' moons and how space agencies are going to investigate its composition.
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Citizen science and the data avalanche
What crowdsourcing projects can people get involved in? Professor Stephen Serjeant digs into some incredible astronomy and particle physics citizen science.
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Dallas Campbell meets Frank Drake
If there are other intelligent cultures around the universe, why haven't we met them yet? And why haven't we heard from them? Frank Drake explains.