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Speedsters of the sports climbing parish have got their own moment in the sun at the Paris Olympics. And Aleksandra Miroslaw shone. Sofiane El Bakkali ran himself into Olympic legend and after a glittering career, Nikola Karabatic retired from handball.

Researchers using the Gaia space telescope studied some ancient stars near the sun, revealing that our corner of the Milky Way may be billions of years older than once thought.

In its search for answers to why our sun's corona is hotter than its surface, NASA's Parker Solar Probe has ruled out one explanation.

If you’re lucky enough to have escaped to sunny shores of late, chances are your colleagues will have complimented you upon your return on your summer glow. Yet tanning as a fashionable practice is both a relatively recent historical phenomenon and one that varies according to place. In fact, sunbathing…