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Asteroid Ryugu has no dust on it and we don’t know why
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Is the 2020 Olympics an opportunity for Japan to tackle seafood sustainability?
From tuna to sea urchin, Japanese cuisine is all about seafood. But with fish stocks critically endangered, tourists sampling local…
A massive collision may have made Jupiter’s core so weird
A giant impact 4.5 billion years ago could be the reason Jupiter’s core is stranger than astronomers expected. Astronomers thought…
Radioactive dust in Antarctic ice could help map interstellar clouds
Radioactive iron found buried in Antarctic snow must have come to Earth from interstellar dust, according to a new study.…
We could use Earth’s atmosphere as a giant lens for a space telescope
Astronomers have a photon problem. They need more of these light particles from the right places, like distant stars and…
After years of sexism in space we urgently need more female astronauts
IN MARCH, the International Space Station was set to strike a blow for gender parity. NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Christina…
“I’d vowed never to go in the ocean – until I faced my aquaphobia head on”
Over 14% of adults in the UK suffer from a fear of water. Here, writer Abigail Beall explains how she overcame…
Beyond Deep Space
How technology is helping us peer to the edges of the observable universe. Issue 93 of All About Space magazine.
Abigail Beall 