Science
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SpaceX said it was standing down to further evaluate an ‘out of family’ reading on the rocket’s first-stage sensors
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Provisionally named 2018 VG18, it is 120 times further away from the sun than Earth is
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On 1 January 2019 the New Horizons probe will begin transmitting data from Ultima Thule, 4bn miles from Earth in the Kuiper belt. What will it find? -
The smallest planet can be seen before sunrise this week together with the largest and the brightest -
Test your knowledge of Tweet-speak, plus a social media maths puzzle
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Scientists warn policymakers not to ignore links, and stress that ‘every action counts’ -
A bucolic community was reduced to ash by a new kind of wildfire – the deadliest in California’s history. Survivors recall that horrible day
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Key issues
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The physicist’s former research student recalls their close relationship at Cambridge, the sheer might of his intellect, and how he once bored the great man to sleep
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At the COP24 conference, leaders lack the urgency felt by communities on the frontlines of a global threat -
It’s now become a public ritual for a successful woman to out herself for having self-doubts
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The solutions to today’s quiz and puzzle -
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The skins they live in -
The solutions to today’s puzzles
Multimedia
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Nicola Davis asks what’s behind one of humanity’s most powerful and possibly evolutionarily important emotions -
Nasa's Juno craft has captured giant, chaotic weather systems plus taken new measurements that will help build unprecedented map of the planet’s interior
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Tim Peake beat more than 8,000 applicants to the job. Here, he shares some images of the training he underwent, as seen in his new hardback, The Astronaut Selection Test Book
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Flight controllers at Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California react to the successful landing of InSight, a spacecraft designed to explore Mars's interior
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A plane with no moving parts in its propulsion system has successfully flown for a distance of 60 metres, proving that heavier-than-air flight is possible without jets or propellers
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Two decades ago, the Zarya module lifted off from Kazakhstan, ushering in a new era of high-tech cooperation in space
Virgin Galactic Richard Branson's space flights criticised as 'dangerous, dead-end tech'