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.

WELCOME

LAUNCH PAD • YOUR FIRST CONTACT WITH THE UNIVERSE

EARTH’S CORE IS GROWING ‘LOPSIDED’, AND SCIENTISTS DON’T WHY

‘MISSING LINK’ EXPLOSION ON THE SUN COULD UNRAVEL LONG-STANDING SOLAR MYSTERIES

SCIENTISTS 3D PRINT HUMAN LIVER TISSUE IN A LAB AND WIN TOP PRIZES IN NASA CHALLENGE

EARTH’S AURORA ORIGIN MYSTERY SOLVED BY ‘SURFING’ ELECTRONS

BOULDERS ON ASTEROID RYUGU ARE SURPRISINGLY FLUFFY, HAYABUSA2 FINDS

RELATIVITY SPACE UNVEILS FULLY REUSABLE, 3D-PRINTED TERRAN R ROCKET

ANTIMATTER GALAXIES • HAS THE IMPOSSIBLE EXISTENCE OF THESE OBJECTS JUST BECOME POSSIBLE?

ANTIMATTER GALAXY FORMATION • Antimatter galaxies would form in just the same way as matter galaxies

LARGE HADRON COLLIDER • Inside the most famous particle accelerator

ORBITAL SERVICE STATION • If rockets could be refuelled in space, it could open up interplanetary travel

SATELLITES VS ASTRONOMY • Rawls speaks to All About Space about the impact of low-Earth orbit satellites on ground-based astronomy and how our experience of the night sky is going to change

THE SOLAR SYSTEM • Join us on a tour through our current understanding of the planetary system we call home

AN ENVOLVING SYSTEM • Our neighbourhood hasn’t always been quiet

LIFE IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM • Could there be life outside of Earth?

THE EIGHT MAJOR PLANETS

Félicette THE INSIDE STORY OF A SPACE CAT • WHAT HAPPENED WHEN A FELINE WAS BLASTED OFF INTO SPACE?

WEIRD NEARBY GAMMA-RAY BURST DEFIES EXPECTATIONS • This isn’t how they’re supposed to behave

Food in Space • PLANNING OUT MARTIAN MENUS MEANS IMPROVING SPACE CUISINE

SPECIAL ORDERS • Certain culinary considerations have to be made in space

FANCY SPACE TIPPLE? NOT ON NASA’S WATCH

THE OTHER END OF EATING IN SPACE • What goes in must come out – and scientists are getting creative with waste-disposal methods

AN ACQUIRED TASTE

SNEAKY SNACK • A controversial and dangerous sandwich

MARS • The Red Planet has a host of new robots investigating it

HAVE SCIENTISTS DISCOVERED A FIFTH FORCE OF NATURE? • REVOLUTIONARY EXPERIMENTS MAY POINT TO A NEW FORCE, OR AN UNDISCOVERED SUBATOMIC PARTICLE

ANOTHER EXPERIMENT OF CONCERN

AMAZING MUONS • Muons are the cousins of electrons, but what else do we know about them?

SOLVING CASES • What could the potential discovery tell us about the universe?

JUPITER’S OCEAN MOON EUROPA MAY HAVE DEEP-SEA VOLCANOES • Jupiter moon may be an even more promising abode for life than scientists thought

MORE ACCURATE CLOCKS MAY ADD MORE DISORDER TO THE UNIVERSE • All clocks create entropy, but accuracy might come at a higher cost

MIRA • This variable star is the queen of hide and seek

ARE EXOPLANETS SHRINKING WITH AGE? • ASTRONOMERS MAY BE CLOSER THAN EVER TO KNOWING WHY SUPER-EARTH EXOPLANETS ARE SO SCARCE

EXOPLANETS BY NUMBERS

MINDING THE GAP • Scientists have known since 2017 that there is a gap in the discovery of exoplanets

THE THEORIES • What could be causing mini-Neptunes to lose their atmospheres?

ASK Space • Our experts answer your questions

WHAT’S IN THE SKY?

THIS MONTH’S PLANETS • Jupiter takes pride of place in the dawn sky for early risers, while Mars and Venus grace the twilight

EARTHSHINE • See the beautiful ‘old Moon in the new Moon’s arms’

NAKED EYE & BINOCULAR TARGETS • Distant galaxies...