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The air up there

Feb 12, 2020

Yale Diary: religion, ecology and how to avert a disaster

Feb 06, 2018

Feeling small can be a good thing and too often self-importance is overblown. So next time you realise your head is growing in circumference, says <b>Emma Buckley Lennox</b>, look at the stars. You'll realise, in the grand scheme of things, you really aren’t that important.

Star gaze to shrink your ego

Jan 19, 2011

Tonight, if the skies are clear, pop outside long after the sun has set and look up. There is so much to ponder about ourselves, our evolution and our destiny, writes <b>Dave Sag</b>.

Look up, to a starry, starry sky

Oct 12, 2010

NASA grabbed headlines around the world with <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/space/11/13/water.moon.nasa/index.html#cnnSTCText">its announcement</a> it has found "a significant amount" of water on the moon. But is 25 gallons of water really all that "significant"? It all sounds like a galactic-sized cash grab to <b>Jon Wiener</b>.

NASA discovers water on the moon — or did it?

Nov 16, 2009

NASA is about to launch a bombing raid on the moon, firing two space missiles at the lunar surface in an effort to look for more water. Space colonies, here we come!

NASA bombs the moon

Oct 09, 2009

And you thought your Playstation 2 was outdated: experts say there could be civilisations on other planets that have existed for <em>1.8 gigayears</em>, leaving us Earthlings looking positively primitive.

Earth could be 1.8 gigayears behind the rest of the galaxy

Oct 06, 2009

What if Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin never made it off the moon? How would the public have been told? Following on from the recent <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/28/us/28safire.html?_r=1&hp">death</a> of President Nixon's speech writer, William Safire, here is his most eloquent speeches that never was.

The “other” moon landing speech

Sep 30, 2009

NASA was all set to make its big announcement that <a href="http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/090923-moon-water-discovery.html">water has been found on the moon</a>, until some spoil-sports on Twitter let it all spill early. More proof <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/23/the-last-has-fallen-the-embargo-is-dead/">the internet has killed</a> the media embargo?

How Twitter ruined NASA’s big day

Sep 26, 2009

As an unusually spotless sun continues to puzzle scientists, get ready for yet another outbreak of pseudo-scientific man-made global warming denialism.

Where have all the sun spots gone?

Crikey Clarifier

Aug 28, 2009

The sun never shines on the floor of some of the moon's deeper craters. So what lies there? Ice? Aliens? Spaceships? For the first time, the US and India are teaming up to take a closer look.

The dark side of the moon

Aug 26, 2009

Among some global warming sceptics, there is speculation that the Sun may be on the verge of falling into an extended slumber similar to the so-called Maunder Minimum, several sunspot-scarce decades during the 17th and 18th centuries.

Has the sun lost its spots?

Jul 25, 2009

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