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China's SpaceX rival, LandSpace, suffered a dramatic rocket failure during a reusability test, highlighting the risks in the global space race.

As a scholar researching clouds, I have spent much of my time trying to understand the economy of the sky. Not the weather reports showing scudding rainclouds, but the deeper logic of cloud movements, their distributions and densities and the way they intervene in light, regulate temperatures and choreograph heat…

Fire is an ancient technology that has helped shape human evolution. Our ancestors used fire for safety, cooking and preserving food. They gathered around a flickering fire to share stories, pass on cultural knowledge and build community.

BepiColombo will arrive in 2026 to uncover the planet Mercury, and unravel how a planet as small, dense, and in such an odd place might have formed.