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We Photographed CERN's Large Hadron Collider (and Won an Award)
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We Photographed CERN's Large Hadron Collider (and Won an Award)

At CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, a laboratory 17 miles long in circumference, scientists explore the fundamental building blocks of the universe by smashing particles together at nearly the speed of light. Supercluster dispatched our acclaimed photographer Erik Kuna to Geneva, Switzerland, to visit and shoot the massive facility in competition with others. We won.


August 5, 2025
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Artist Xin Liu Engineers New Narratives for Space

With a studio that bears more resemblance to a scientific laboratory than a typical artist’s studio, artist Xin Liu often incorporates cutting-edge technologies into her interdisciplinary practice.


July 29, 2025
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Opinion: Isn't ESA Supposed to Build its Own Human Spaceflight Program?

Through its astronaut reserve pool, ESA created what appears to be an incentive for its member states to pay for commercial missions facilitated by a private American company (Axiom) and executed by a private American spaceflight firm (SpaceX), which may seem contradictory to the agency’s purpose.


July 22, 2025
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The Rubin Observatory Advances Interstellar Archeology

Much has been written about Rubin’s omniscience. But there is another aspect to the observatory that, for now, is underappreciated: it will turn astronomers into archaeologists.


July 15, 2025
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In Photos: The Women Who Helped Build the ISS

A visual history depicting the intrepid women of NASA's astronaut corps that helped assemble the International Space Station, our home away from home that has enabled permanent human presence in orbit for over a quarter century.


July 8, 2025
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Project Hail Mary Dispatches Ryan Gosling to the Tau Ceti System

When a reluctant biologist-turned-schoolteacher Dr. Ryland Grace wakes up from a coma aboard an interstellar spacecraft, he has no idea where he is or why he’s light-years from home. As his memories return, he learns of the Project Hail Mary mission to the Tau Ceti system — located 12 light years (about 72 trillion miles) from Earth — to investigate a strange substance that’s slowly consuming our sun’s energy.


July 1, 2025
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