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Joseph Stalin (Image: Wikicommons)

Did Stalin start WWII? The answer won’t surprise you

Jul 06, 2021

(Image: Unsplash/NASA)

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

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

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 dark side of the moon

Aug 26, 2009

In honour of the original moonwalk on 20 July 1969, Crikey intern <b>Josh Taylor</b> looks at some of the best stories about the day Neil and Buzz landed and what's happened since.

The original moonwalk: 40 years on

Jul 17, 2009

To commemorate the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11, NASA released partially restored video of a series of 15 memorable moments from the July 20 moonwalk.

Walking on the Moon restored

Jul 17, 2009

The International Space Station is now so large it is visible in broad daylight as a white moving dot in a clear sky.

Is it a bird? No, it’s a space station

Jun 18, 2009

Time lapse video of night sky as it passes over the 2009 Texas Star Party in Fort Davis, Texas. Images taken with 15mm fisheye lens by <a href="http://vimeo.com/user1706723">William Castleman</a>.

VIDEO: Milky Way passes over Texas night sky

May 19, 2009

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