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Abigail Beall

How far are we from creating a Blade Runner-style Replicant?

This is what the new lunar space station will look like

Mercury poisoning and fire gilding: the science of S-Town

Galaxies are violently chucking cosmic rays towards the Earth

We're lucky Earth isn't caught in a permanent Ice Age

The asteroid belt might actually be a giant a cosmic refugee camp

This exo-inferno planet has titanium in its atmosphere

A big reservoir of water might be lurking under the Moon's surface

Quantum encrypted box hints at unhackable communication

In space, nobody can make it hurt less when you pee

How does Elon Musk’s spacesuit design stack up against Nasa's?

Pack an umbrella, it's probably raining diamonds on Uranus

How to make your own pinhole viewer to watch the solar eclipse

Supervolcanoes could be the key to our battery-powered future

Internet eggcorns are messing up how we all communicate

What's the meaning of life?

Einstein = clever. Black holes seemingly affected by relativity

This ultrahot Jupiter-like exoplanet has a glowing stratosphere

Black holes lurking at the centre of galaxies could kill stars

Tiny beads found all over the Moon could supply astronauts with water