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How to spot the Lyrid meteor shower tonight
The Lyrid meteor shower streaks through the sky Adventure_Photo/Getty Images The Lyrid meteor shower hits its…
What to read this week: Emma Chapman’s mind-expanding Radio Universe
ALMA, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, Chile ESO/C. Malin Radio UniverseEmma ChapmanJohn Murray When he was…
Largest ever map of universe captures 47 million galaxies and quasars
A thin slice of the map produced by the DESI five-year survey shows galaxies and quasars…
We’ve caught a comet switching its spin direction for the first time
An artist’s impression of comet 41P as it approached the sun and shot material off into…
NASA’s Artemis II mission was a historic success
The astronauts of the Artemis II mission have made it home. Their journey, which began…
The most stunning pictures from Artemis II’s flyby of the moon
On 6 April, the astronauts of NASA’s Artemis II mission flew in a loop around the…
The Artemis II astronauts have flown around the moon
The near side of the moon is visible on the right, identifiable by the dark splotches…
We may have seen a ‘dirty fireball’ star explosion for the first time
Dying stars can emit a powerful jet of radiation, as seen in an artist’s impression Stocktrek…
We may have just glimpsed the universe’s first stars
An artist’s impression of star formation in the early universe Adolf Schaller for STScI/NASA Astronomers have…