David Appell reviews Catching Stardust: Comets, Asteroids and the Birth of the Solar System by Natalie Starkey
Hamish Johnston reviews One of Ten Billion Earths: How we Learn About our Planet’s Past and Future from Distant Exoplanets by Karel Schrijver
Mission is first to explore dramatic lunar landscape not visible from Earth
Craft will spend two years probing deep beneath the Martian surface
Hawaii’s supreme court rules in favour of construction starting for the embattled telescope
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Annual oscillation could be the result of contaminated photomultipliers
Mystery object close to black hole could be devouring stellar remnant
Rare compound could exist at temperatures and pressures found at the core–mantle boundary
An “antiuniverse” where time runs backwards and antimatter dominates would naturally explain the existence of dark matter
Gas giants form much faster and further from their stars than previously thought
New technique could boost our understanding of the early universe
Louisa Preston reviews Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto by Alan Stern and David Grinspoon
Cosmologist Jo Dunkley discusses her new book Our Universe, An Astronomer’s Guide
Journalists discuss a physics-inspired art exhibit and the week’s research highlights
Planetary geologist wants to hear from anyone who observed or photographed the event at 04:41:43 UTC
Experiment is a “milestone” towards seeing the spontaneous emission of Hawking radiation from a lab-based analogue, but questions still remain
A key initiative to mark the centenary of the International Astronomical Union will see more than 500 events being held around the world
In today's uncertain times, our editors try to predict what will happen in the scientific world in 2019
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Tushna Commissariat reviews the film First Man, directed by Damien Chazelle
Six gravitational-wave events were seen in less than one month of observation time
Jessica Wade reviews Wally Funk’s Race for Space: the Extraordinary Story of a Female Aviation Pioneer by Sue Nelson
Second episode in mini-series explores the future of astronomy
