SOLOMON HUGHES recommends Sunjeev Sahota’s recent novel set in a trade union election campaign for its fresh approach to what unites and divides workers, but wishes the union backdrop was truer to life
Could Elon Musk’s megalomania hinder exoplanet research?
ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and JOEL HELLEWELL ask whether cluttering the skies with satellites is a good idea
An artist’s impression of transiting exoplanet Corot-9b which is the first “normal” exoplanet that can be studied in great detail. It is the size of Jupiter and an orbit similar to that of Mercury. It orbits a star similar to the Sun 1,500 light-years away from Earth towards the constellation of Serpens (the Snake)
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Morning Star international editor ROGER McKENZIE says Trump’s ceaseless belligerence is a desperate effort to prevent the emergence of a multilateral world
Don’t dismiss Lebanon as a side theatre of this war, warns SEVIM DAGDELEN — there are signs Israel has expansion in mind, and it has demonstrated its willingness to expel and kill whole populations
The media present Starmer as staying out of Trump’s war — but we’re already deeply involved in a conflict that sees the US and Israel kill civilians on a huge scale, argues IAN SINCLAIR
LINDA PENTZ GUNTER reports on this week’s conference unveiling the findings of the Gaza Tribunal established by Jeremy Corbyn
CHRISTOPHE IMMER of the Morning Star’s German sister paper Junge Welt reports on a Berlin conference on the politics of art and the legacy of Marxist critic Hans Hess
EXOPLANET research seeks to identify and characterise alien planets orbiting other stars.
Since the first exoplanet was confirmed in 1992, thousands of others have been found.
One focus for this research is the characterisation of their atmospheres. Our own atmosphere, the gas layer in which we live, is so intimately linked to the existence of life on Earth that understanding the atmospheres of exoplanets provides crucial evidence to identify other Earth-like planets.
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