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Astrophysics - How Are Gold, Silver And Bronze Created In The Universe?

Copper, which is the primary component of bronze, is created during supernova explosions at the end of the lives of massive stars, using existing nitrogen as a seed.

Star profile: Betelgeuse

The famous red giant will soon be coming to an explosive end

Vixen A70Lf with Mini Porta mount

An extremely affordable starter package that’s easy to use and a breeze to set up

STRANGEST MOONS in the solar system

Some of the most fascinating worlds in our cosmic neighbourhood are not planets, but the moons that orbit around them

NOBEL PRIZE WINNER JAMES PEEBLES: “WHY I REINVENTED SPACE AND TIME”

All About Space chats to the 2019 Nobel laureate in physics about his involvement in many groundbreaking discoveries and how our theories have evolved since he first began studying the universe

EXTINCTION BY SUPERNOVA

Earth’s fossil record suggests its ozone layer took a protracted beating

Deep sky challenge: Autumn's fading galaxies

Winter is coming, but some of autumn’s deep-sky treasures can still be enjoyed through your telescope

DYSON SPHERE

Could an advanced civilisation harness the power of stars to sustain their energy needs?

DARK STARS

These cosmic creators, powered by dark matter, could be responsible for our existence, along with the appearance of today’s universe

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Secrets Of The Ocean Worlds

If physics and chemistry are the same throughout the universe, is biology too?

Scientist calculates the ‘sad, lonely' end of the universe

Stars will continue to explode long after the universe is cold and ‘dead’, one scientist determined after diving down the rabbit hole to find the last supernova that will ever happen.

THE SOLAR SYSTEM'S BLACK HOLE

As the hunt for a mysterious world at our solar neighbourhood’s edge steps up, something more exotic might also fit the bill

Robert Lawrence

Selected as the first African-American astronaut, but tragically died before he could reach space

FISHING ON OTHER WORLDS

Could space fishing be the answer to a low-cost sample-and-return mission?

Celestron NexStar 127 SLT

A small telescope that packs a punch, this Maksutov-Cassegrain is an ideal companion for observations of the Solar System

ESCAPE TO TITAN

When the Sun scorches Earth, a tiny moon in orbit around the ringed giant Saturn is our next home

Betelgeuse's bizarre dimming caused by eruption

In the autumn of 2019, red giant Betelgeuse began dimming significantly, losing about two-thirds of its brightness by February.

SpaceX's Next Astronaut Launch For NASA Pushed To October

SpaceX’s next astronaut mission faces another delay.

Do Earth-Like Planets Orbit Our Galaxy's Black Hole?

‘Blanets’ could form from the ice-covered dust particles that circle these cosmic colossi

2021 The Year Britain Launches To The Moon

Before humankind returns to the lunar surface, UK-built robotic spiders will be skulking across it. All About Space speaks to Pavlo Tanasyuk, the CEO of Spacebit, on spearheading an initiative to explore ancient lunar lava tubes

“So many people knew their parents had gone through the Holocaust and grew up with this shadow of trauma”

Barrister and TV presenter ROBERT RINDER tells us about his two-part documentary dealing with the legacy of the Holocaust and its impact on his family – and why it’s vital to talk about the trauma

ROMAN - Murder most foul

MICHAEL SCOTT considers a grisly new title that contains a blood-soaked collection of Roman murder tales

Paraguay's child-soldiers fought with wooden sticks, painted as muskets

Outside of South America – where it remains an open wound – the War of the Triple Alliance is largely forgotten. It lasted from 1864 to 1870 and pitted

ANNE BOLEYN'S FINAL BATTLE

Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII’s second wife, famously lost her head at her husband’s behest. Tracy Borman, the presenter of a new TV series on Anne’s fall from grace, delves into the queen's dramatic final days

Churchill ‘considered nuclear attack' on the USSR

The statesman was prepared to deploy extreme measures against the forces of communism, new research reveals.

A life lived to the full

DIANE ATKINSON salutes an impressive new biography charting the action-packed life of Sylvia Pankhurst, from suffragette hunger strikes to secret missions to revolutionary Russia

Spanish Civil War - Fighters Against Fascism

Alejandro Quiroga recommends a book that tells the stories of international soldiers who signed up to fight in the Spanish Civil War, and questions what motivated them

Life After Death

Laurence Rees recommends a moving and often surprising examination of the difficulties faced by children rebuilding their lives after surviving the Holocaust

We Should Keep Rewriting History: Our ‘Island Story' Is Not Set In Stone

I had made up my mind not to talk about the ‘Life in the UK’ British history test. Earlier this summer, 181 historians and authors had their say about its factual inaccuracies; about the lack of social history; the omission of black history; the downplaying of Britain’s role in the slave trade. But this, in a real sense, represents the ‘official’ narrative of our history. When the prime minister said, in response to the fall of Edward Colston’s statue in Bristol, “we cannot pretend to have a different history”, we have to assume that this is what he means.