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YOUR FIRST CONTACT WITH THE UNIVERSE

WORLDS WITHOUT SUNS

Astronomers are still on the hunt for rogue planets, but what can they tell us about the layout of our cosmos?

ON BOARD THE VOMIT COMET

You’d better have a strong stomach: in space, everyone can hear you spew

APOLLO ANNIVERSARY BACK TO THE MOON

MANY NATIONS ARE INTERESTED IN RETURNING TO THE MOON TO EXPLORE AND MINE IT

Is Our Sun Going Into Hibernation?

Each sunspot cycle has been getting less intense. Is our star falling asleep?

10 Amazing Volcanoes In The Solar System

Explore these violent openings into the inner workings and origins of the planets and their moons

FORGOTTEN PLANS TO REACH THE MOON

Before Apollo, many ingenious lunar landing schemes were proposed that could have changed history

RISE OF VERA RUBIN'S SUPER OBSERVATORY

Astronomy’s new era will be defined by a wider and deeper view of the universe

JEREMIAS PFAFF: THE BOUNDARIES OF QUANTUM PHYSICS

Jeremias Pfaff speaks to All About Space about what it takes to measure gravity on such a minute scale. The next step? To go even smaller

HUNT FOR THE UNIVERSE'S MISSING STARS

An international team of astronomers is on the hunt for objects that should be impossible

FOUND! SAFEST PLACE TO LIVE IN THE MILKY WAY

Astronomers have searched our galaxy to identify the safest places to live. As it turns out, we’re in a pretty good spot

HOW TO SPOT A FAKE SPACE PHOTO

Reveal if that sensational image is real or a fraud with All About Space’s top tips

CELESTRON CPC 800 GPS (XLT)

With its StarBright XLT technology, this catadioptric instrument is worth every penny: an excellent investment for serious sky-watchers

Deep sky challenge: A Gaggle of glittering globular clusters

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

Can We Detect Wormholes?

They’re a staple of science fiction, but could they be real? New research suggests wormholes could be somewhere around us, and we could uncover them

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

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

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

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

A New View Of The Milky Way

A Dynamic, Complicated, Bubble-blowing Wild Child: Meet Our Galaxy All Over Again

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

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