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Deep sky challenge: A Gaggle of glittering globular clusters

Messier 13 isn’t the only stellar gathering to see in the early summer sky

THE TRUTH ABOUT ROSEWELL FILES

Did a flying saucer really crash land in America in 1947, only to be hushed up by the government?

DR QUEENIE HOI SHAN CHAN - SEEKING THE ORIGINS OF LIFE

A planetary scientist with a very steady hand, Queenie Chan speaks to All About Space about her work on tiny specks of asteroid samples collected by the Hayabusa mission

SIGNALS FROM SATURN

An unusual signal from the ringed planet’s moon Rhea now has a possible explanation

PERSEVERANCE ON MARS

NASA’S LATEST MARTIAN ROVER HAS BEGUN ITS EPIC QUEST TO FIND EVIDENCE FOR PAST LIFE RESIDING IN JEZERO CRATER

Tulsa Race Massacre

A century ago, America’s simmering racial tensions boiled over on the streets of one Oklahoma city, leaving dozens dead and hundreds more injured. Scott Ellsworth explores what remains the worst single incident of racial violence in US history – the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

Triumph and tragedy

GILES MILTON applauds a masterful new account of the Special Operations Executive and the female agents who put their lives on the line to sabotage the Nazi war machine

Empire of chains

CLARE ANDERSON embarks on a lively journey through a series of convict tales that shed new light on centuries of penal transportation across the British empire

Rome's Reluctant Killer

Marcus Aurelius may not have sought war, but when it came he was more than ready. Shushma Malik reveals how a man of peace became one of Rome’s greatest warrior-emperors

Walking A Dangerous Road

The recent death of Sarah Everard sparked outrage, with protests breaking out across the United Kingdom. NELL DARBY argues that women’s safety in public spaces has never been assured, with the threat of violence stalking the streets from the Victorian era to the present day

NEW LAW PROTECTS APOLLO SITES FROM MOON MISSIONS

Future launches to the lunar surface will be required to leave these iconic locations untouched

STARSHIP MISSION CONSTRUCTION KIT

SpaceX is building Starship specifically to reach Mars, but it could transform space travel as the first mass-produced spacecraft

SIGNAL FROM PROXIMA CENTAURI

Could a recently detected signal from a nearby star system be from extraterrestrials?

DR PHILIP GOFF “WE MIGHT HAVE TO RETHINK WHAT SCIENCE IS”

In his book Galileo’s Error, philosopher Philip Goff argues consciousness is everywhere. All About Space meets with the author to find out more

Space Wars - Is Planet Earth Ready For A Cosmic Battleground?

Several countries are spending a lot more on military space, worrying peacemakers

TESTING EINSTEIN

How attempting to break the theory of general relativity has migrated beyond the limits of the Milky Way

Valeri Polyakov

This cosmonaut holds the record for the longest single stay in space

Cavalerius

Use this little-known crater to track down a historic lunar landing site

The borders of Leo, the Lion

Famous for containing many bright galaxies, Leo also hides some lesser known deep-sky delights

THE STRANGE YELLOW SKIES OF WASP-79B

Astronomers will feel blue if they don’t discover why this hot-Jupiter exoplanet has an odd-coloured sky

“THERE'S NOTHING MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE ABOUT BEING A SCIENTIST”

All About Space talks to the astrophysicist and YouTube sensation about life, the universe and everything

Celestron AstroMaster 102AZ

Designed for celestial and terrestrial viewing, this refractor is suitable for beginners on a budget

Secrets Of Mars

How a new fleet of missions will help us to solve the red planet’s mysteries

Failed Stars & Super-Jupiters

The strange celestial objects that don’t make the cut as either planets or stars

SPACE EXPLORATION - Will the International Space Station ever be replaced?

The short answer? Yes, most definitely.

Jupiter's ocean moon Europa may spout water plumes

Jupiter’s moon Europa may cough water into space from small pockets in its icy crust, a new study suggests. Europa, one of Jupiter’s four big Galilean moons, harbours a huge ocean of salty water beneath its ice shell and is widely regarded as one of the Solar System’s best bets to host alien life.

Newfound ‘Kraken merger' may have been the biggest collision in Milky Way history

The Milky Way has more than 100 billion stars, but it didn’t come by them all honestly.

Deep sky challenge - Little-known treasures of Taurus

There’s more to the Bull than the Hyades and Pleiades star clusters – just look a little deeper

Moon tour - Schiller

To start off the New Year, spot one of the strangest-shaped craters on the Moon

China's Chang'e 5 lands on the Moon, collects first lunar sample

China has landed on the Moon again, and this time the country plans to bring home some souvenirs. Chang’e 5, China’s first sample-return mission, successfully touched down on 1 December near Mons Rümker, a lunar mountain located in the Ocean of Storms, or Oceanus Procellarum. The probe deployed its solar array and antenna soon after to begin its work.