All space exploration articles
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Webinar
Astronomical spectroscopy: understanding the complex chemistry hidden between the stars
Find out how scientists are resolving the chemistry of the gaps between the stars and planets
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Webinar
Uranus: exploring the ice-cold chemistry of the ‘frozen frontier’
Find out why scientists are planning a new space mission to explore the planetary ice giant Uranus
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Careers
Exploring the space economy
In the words of Jean-Luc Picard, ‘things are only impossible until they are not’
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Research
Molecular complexity index could help find proof of alien life
Is it microbes on Venus or just lifeless planetary processes? Discovery could help scientists identify life on other planets
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Review
Robots in Space: The Secret Lives of Our Planetary Explorers
The fantastic space adventures of Perseverance and its cousins
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Review
Black Hole Survival Guide
Like a brain-twisting introductory physics lecture, but in the best way
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Review
Dr Space Junk vs The Universe: Archaeology and the Future
Space archaeologist Alice Gorman explores the cultural significance of the things we have left behind
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Podcast
Gallium arsenide
Brian Clegg introduces gallium arsenide – the supercar of the semiconductor scene
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News
BepiColombo satellites begin journey to Mercury
Mission hopes to shed some light on processes that may have shaped the early Earth
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Review
The space barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the quest to colonize the cosmos
A book that aims to take readers into the lives and minds of two of the most powerful men in the world
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Feature
What it takes to make a new element
Yuri Oganessian tells us how nihonium, moscovium, tennessine and oganesson were made
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Opinion
Exoplanets are our final frontier
Chemists will be integral to the hunt for biosignatures on distant worlds