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The Flower Moon of May 2020 (which was also a ‘supermoon’) rising above the village of Brixworth (Photo: Clive Mason/Getty Images)

When is the Flower Moon in May 2023?

SpaceX's Starship launches from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, Thursday, April 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Elon Musk's SpaceX’s Starship rocket explodes minutes after blast-off

A defunct satellite weighing 660 pounds is expected to crash back to Earth in the early hours of Thursday. Picture by NASA

660-pound old satellite to crash back to Earth

The Earth rises above the horizon of the moon, as seen by the crew of the Apollo 8 mission in December 1968 (Picture: Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Nasa's return to moon gives some much-needed new hope about humanity's future

Black hole 30 billion times the mass of the sun pictured

This is the spacesuit the first astronaut back on the Moon will wear

Nasa reveal new spacesuit the first astronaut back on Moon will wear

Vertical farming, originally developed by Nasa scientists as a potential way to grow food for astronauts in space, involves rearing crops indoors in upright stacked layers, with the environment strictly controlled to optimise plant growth

Salad days: How farming tech invented by Nasa could solve food problems

NASA discover new asteroid similar in size to Rome’s Colosseum

Graphic issued by Nasa of the Orbital diagram from CNEO's close approach viewer showing BU's trajectory - in red - during its close approach with Earth. Then asteroid will pass about 10 times closer to Earth than the orbit of geosynchronous satellites, shown in green line. An asteroid the size of a small truck will pass by Earth tonight, making one of the closest approaches to the planet ever recorded.

Asteroid to pass Earth in one of closest approaches ever recorded

A Nasa image of the Orbital diagram from CNEO's close approach viewer showing BU's trajectory - in red - during its close approach with Earth. Picture: NASA/JPL-Caltech/PA Wire

Asteroid to pass Earth in one of closest approaches ever recorded

Near miss: NASA says Earth set for ‘close encounter’ with asteroid

Retailing at around £40, the Peace Lily is a little pricey but may prove a worthy investment for many during the cost of living crisis.

This £40 plant will rid your home of mould and dust, according to NASA

For the first time in 50,000 years, a green comet is expected to pass by Earth’s outer space that might just be bright enough to be seen by the naked eye.

Rare green comet to pass by Earth’s outer space

An image of newly discovered TOI 700 e Earth-sized planet

Nasa finds two new Earth-sized planets in ‘habitable zone’

Pufferfish's display systems deliver 'highly interactive engagement and multi-sensory experiences' for a range of uses and settings, including corporate communications, museums, science centres, planetariums, art exhibitions and other visitor attractions, as well as scientific and educational institutions.

Edinburgh firm behind multi-sensory display systems to inject ‘wow’ factor

Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine caused a global energy crisis as oil and gas prices soared (Picture: Mikhail Klimentyev/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images)

Real energy security lies at the end of the road to net-zero carbon emissions

Nasa's Artemis I Space Launch System rocket, with the Orion capsule attached, launches on November 16 at Cape Canaveral, Florida.

The sky’s the limit for Graduate Apprenticeships - Prof Gillian Murray

It is 50 years to the day since US astronaut Gene Cernan became the last person to set foot on the moon (Picture: AFP via Getty)

Fifty years after the last astronaut landed on the moon, we must go back

Ex-NASA engineer Mark Rober has uploaded a video explaining how to defrost car windows using the power of science - and four straightforward steps.

Former NASA engineer reveals quickest way to defrost windscreens

Dr Hina Khan joins Space Scotland as its first-ever executive director, and says she is looking forward to bringing a fresh perspective to the industry. Picture: Mark F Gibson/Gibson Digital.

Space Scotland targets accelerated ascent with duo of senior appointments

Orion sends image of Moon and the Earth to celebrate halfway point

Spectators watch as the Artemis I unmanned lunar rocket lifts off from launch pad

Man could be living on the Moon by end of decade – Nasa official

CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA - NOVEMBER 16: NASA’s Artemis I Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, with the Orion capsule attached, launches at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on November 16, 2022 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The Artemis I mission will send the uncrewed spacecraft around the moon to test the vehicle's propulsion, navigation and power systems as a precursor to later crewed mission to the lunar surface. (Photo by Red Huber/Getty Images)

Artemis 1: Nasa’s moon rocket lifts off

Artemis I Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, with the Orion capsule attached, launches at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on November 16

NASA successfully launch unmanned Aretmis One rocket

The Hubble telescope sits in low-earth orbit (image: Getty Images)

NASA’s Hubble Telescope captures supernova happening in early universe

A super blood wolf moon next to one of The Kelpies near Falkirk during a lunar eclipse.

Beaver Blood Moon: Date of November full moon, lunar eclipse times

Brian Hills, CEO, The Data Lab

The age of the data pioneers - Brian Hills

Dorset was battered by thunderstorms and a band of heavy rain overnight on the weekend.

Rare footage shows thunderbolt hit sea off the English coast

An artist's impression of Nasa's Dart ( double asteroid redirection test) craft. Picture: Nasa

How science fiction became science fact when Nasa nudged an asteroid off track

Robots can be better designed if they 'evolve' (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Robots are being redesigned by artificial evolution – Professor Emma Hart

Things are looking up for stargazers this week as the Draconid meteor shower is set to peak

When does Draconid meteor shower peak and how to watch

Europa or "Jupiter II" is the smallest of the four Galilean moons orbiting Jupiter, with this moon orbiting at about 417,000 miles from the gas giant.

Jupiter Moon Could Support Life: NASA spacecraft will probe the moon’s crust

Asteroid moonlet Dimorphos as seen by the DART spacecraft 11 seconds before impact (Credits: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL)

NASA DART mission: why was a spacecraft flown into an asteroid

Undated handout artist impression issued by Nasa of its Double Asteroid Redirection Test or Dart. Nasa has successfully crashed a spacecraft into a small asteroid as part of a planetary protection test mission. While this asteroid - named Dimorphos - posed no threat to Earth, the aim of the mission was to demonstrate that dangerous incoming rocks can be deflected by deliberately smashing into them. Issue date: Tuesday September 27, 2022.

Nasa tests defence technology by crashing spacecraft into asteroid

NASA to crash aircraft into asteroid in Earth defence test

Jupiter will reach opposition this week making its closest approach to Earth in the last 59 years

How to see Jupiter’s closest approach to earth in 59 years

NASA's Artemis I rocket sits on launch pad 39B after the launch was scrubbed at Kennedy Space Center. Picture: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images

Nasa rocket launch now weeks away after dangerous fuel leak

NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard is seen atop the mobile launcher at Launch Pad 39B

Fuel leak halts Nasa’s second attempt to launch moon rocket

People set up remote cameras near the Artemis I rocket on the launch pad behind them at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Picture: Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images

British scientists use AI to find best place to walk on Moon

NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard is seen atop a mobile launcher at Launch Pad 39B as preparations for launch continue at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on August 28, 2022

Artemis 1 launched called off after engine problem

The NASA moon rocket stands ready less than 24 hours before it is scheduled to launch on Pad 39B for the Artemis 1 mission to orbit the moon at the Kennedy Space Center, Sunday, Aug. 28, 2022, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

Watch live stream of Artemis 1 rocket launch

Nasa will launch its new moon rocket later today, marking the next chapter in putting humans back on the moon. Photo by Joel Kowsky/NASA via Getty Images

When will Artemis 1 moon mission launch after flight cancelled?

Image: NASA handout photo taken from its Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) of two solar flares seen in extreme ultraviolet light over a three day period (2011).

Solar Storm expected to hit Earth soon, experts warn of GPS and radio blackouts

The first image Nasa has shared from its James Webb Space Telescope is this beautiful shot of a star forming region NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula. It was partly produced by an instrument designed and built in Scotland at the Royal Observatory in Edinburgh.

Nine extraordinary images from the James Webb Space Telescope

This image, known as Webb's First Deep Field, is the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe to date (Picture: Nasa, ESA, CSA, and STScI)

Space Telescope's first images should inspire humanity to do great things

NASA image from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) which shows a landscape of mountains and valleys speckled with glittering stars, which sits at the edge of a nearby, young, star-forming region called NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula. The image was partly produced by an instrument which was largely designed and built in Scotland under the leadership of Professor Gillian Wright of the UK Astronomy Technology Centre (UK ATC) at the Royal Observatory in Edinburgh. Photo by HANDOUT/NASA/AFP via Getty Images)

The key Scottish link to stunning James Webb Space Telescope images

Handout of the first image from Nasa's James Webb Space Telescope which has been revealed, showing what is said to be the "deepest" and most detailed picture of the cosmos to date.

First James Webb Space Telescope image shows universe in spectacular detail

Pufferfish has appointed Elaine Van Der Berg as its chief executive.

New boss at Edinburgh firm behind display systems used by Google and Nasa

NASA scientist creates chilling video to get Brits to clean up their laundry hab...

European Space Agency's astronaut Matthais Maurer gives a thumbs up after being helped out of the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endurance spacecraft onboard the SpaceX Shannon recovery ship after he and NASA astronauts Raja Chari, Kayla Barron, Tom Marshburn, landed in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Tampa, Florida, Friday, May 6, 2022. (Aubrey Gemignani/NASA via AP)

SpaceX brings four astronauts home with midnight splashdown

Intelligent aliens observing Earth may conclude its inhabitants are unconcerned about trashing their environment, given the amount of space junk in orbit (Picture: Nasa/Getty Images)

Earth's space junk problem says a lot about humanity as a species

Russian cosmonauts Sergey Korsakov, Oleg Artemyev and Denis Matveyev emerged from the Soyuz capsule wearing yellow flight suits with blue stripes. Picture: Roscosmos via AP

Russian cosmonauts arrive in space wearing Ukrainian colours

The Hubble Telescope has been in space for more than 30 years (Photo: NASA via Getty Images)

How to see the photo the Hubble Space Telescope took on your birthday

Santa’s sleigh will be visible in the sky on Christmas Eve and Christmas morning (Photo: Shutterstock)

How to see Santa flying through the sky this Christmas Eve

An artist’s impression of the Dart spacecraft (Image: NASA)

Nasa launches spacecraft in first ever mission to smash into and deflect asteroi...

The Cambridge Dictionary has revealed its word of the year for 2021 (Shutterstock)

QUIZ: Can you guess the Cambridge words of the year based on their dictionary de...

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The NHS paid out more than £160m in compensation to patients between 2018 and 2022, figures show, with one case involving a baby who died after an improper examination. Pic: Jeff Moore/PA Wire

Millions paid out for botched NHS treatments, including ovary removal

The attack on the Capitol sparked the biggest police investigation in US history. Picture: Brent Stirton/Getty Images

Convicted US Capitol rioter set to arrive in Scotland later this year

Youssef Mikhaiel and his partner, Sarah Bradley, at Queen's Park Stadium in Glasgow, before his detention.

University graduate detained as number held in Dungavel soars threefold