All About Space

Every issue All About Space delivers fascinating articles and features on all aspects of space and space travel with mind-blowing photography and full-colour illustrations that bring the amazing universe around us to life.

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The Pentagon wants the commercial space reserve to support military satellites in orbit

Something strange is happening with Earth’s magnetic field’s tail

India’s ambitious second Mars mission will include a rover, helicopter, sky crane and supersonic parachute

The solar storm frenzy of May 2024 was strong enough to affect the deep sea

The Milky Way’s halo is filled with ‘magnetic doughnuts’ as wide as 100,000 light years

Stars give tiny planets a gravitational ‘squeeze’ to strip away their atmospheres

WIN AN OLIVON PC-3 10x56 BINOCULAR WORTH £349! • Embark on a fuss-free tour of the night sky with this month’s competition prize

STARQUAKES • STARS ARE PLAYING A COSMIC CONCERTO THAT CAN REVEAL THE DEEP SECRETS OF THEIR INTERIORS

IF THE SUN WERE A TRUMPET

STELLAR CONCERT • Thanks to data from Kepler and other missions, it’s becoming clear that all stars have their own oscillations, like instruments in an orchestra

THE SOUND OF STARS • A star’s internal structure affects the pattern of oscillations seen at its surface

DEAD STARS ARE STILL SHAKING

THE SMALLEST AND BIGGEST STARQUAKES EVER RECORDED

PROJECT DRAGONFLY • The innovative laser sail technology that could propel us to interstellar space

“It feels like magic” • The first Canadian to walk in space tells us about his life in Earth orbit, his music and photography and why he broke into a space station with an army knife

DOES A COSMIC ‘GLITCH’ IN GRAVITY CHALLENGE ALBERT EINSTEIN’S GREATEST THEORY? • Gravity changes once you reach a cosmic scale

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LONG AGO, A LAKE ON MARS MAY HAVE BEEN SPRAWLING WITH MICROBES • Curiosity discovered manganese oxide in bedrock in a Martian region that may have been a shoreline billions of years ago

THE TEN BEST IMAGES TAKEN FROM THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION • The orbiting laboratory has a unique view of Earth and its surroundings

DID WEBB REALLY FIND LIFE BEYOND EARTH? SCIENTISTS AREN’T SO SURE • Reports of life signs detected in the atmosphere of the potential ocean world K2-18 b may have been premature

CLIMATE CHANGE IN SOLAR THE SYSTEM • Alongside Earth, our planetary neighbourhood is changing, but it’s not for the better…

THE CHANGING CLIMATE OF VENUS • According to research, our neighbour’s environment has changed dramatically

WHAT CAUSES CLIMATE CHANGE?

FEED YOUR MIND

NASA’S CHANDRA SPOTS A SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLE ERUPTING IN THE MILKY WAY’S HEART • Even quiet black holes like Sagittarius A* need to vent sometimes

UNIVERSE BEFORE TIME • Could the existence of a mirror-image cosmos before the Big Bang solve some of the biggest mysteries in astronomy?

THE OTHER UNIVERSE • A symmetric universe conjures up an entire cosmos with equal and opposite properties to our own

LIVING IN AN ANTI-UNIVERSE • If the anti-universe exists, what would conditions inside it be like?

EVIDENCE FOR A BACKWARDS UNIVERSE

HOW WE WOULD GET TO ANOTHER UNIVERSE • Travelling to another universe lies well beyond the limitations of current physics and technology, but how might we do it?

APOPHIS WILL COME TO EARTH IN 2029, AND IT COULD MEET SOME TINY SPACECRAFT • Scientists have unveiled three concepts for tiny spacecraft that could voyage from Earth to meet the asteroid in April 2029

IS THERE ANOTHER PLANET BEYOND NEPTUNE? • There are now five lines of...