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News

Square Kilometre Array organization opts for dual-site solution

May 25, 2012 1 comment

South Africa and Australia to jointly host world's largest radio telescope

Bow-shock no-show shocks astronomers

May 11, 2012 10 comments

Sun is moving slower than we thought relative to interstellar space

Astronomers lift the veil on hidden exoplanet

May 10, 2012 2 comments

Discovery using transit-time variations is a first

Quasars shine a new light on cosmic distances

May 4, 2012 8 comments

New method correlates redshift of different quasars

In depth

Between the lines: fiction special

May 24, 2012

A round-up of recent fiction books with a physics theme, reviewed by Margaret Harris and Matin Durrani

Web life

May 17, 2012

Universe Sandbox: an interactive space simulator that allows you to build your own solar system, fling asteroids at the Earth and send a teapot into orbit

Venus: it's now or never

May 1, 2012 3 comments

As next month's transit of Venus nears, Jay M Pasachoff examines the science and history of these exceptionally rare events

Atmospheric tales

May 1, 2012 2 comments

Robert P Crease asks why the discovery of Venus's atmosphere is still so controversial