The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Euclid space telescope has sent back its first science images, and…
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Can we smash together all of the asteroids to build a new planet?
Let’s be honest: the asteroid belt is a bit of a mess. It is full of…
Newfound moon around asteroid Dinkinesh is actually two touching rocks
The asteroid Dinkinesh and its binary contact satellite NASA/Goddard/SwRI/Johns Hopkins APL The asteroid Dinkinesh’s newfound moon…
Lunar occultation of Venus 2023: When to see the planet disappear behind the moon
Venus seen next to and above the crescent moon just before a daytime occultation in 2015…
How Jupiter’s powerful storms compare to weather on hot Jupiters
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Shutterstock / joshimerbin The following is an extract from our monthly Launchpad…
Distant Milky Way-like galaxy is older than we thought possible
Artistic representation of how the Milky Way-like galaxy ceers-2112 would look from Earth Luca Costantin (CAB/CSIC-INTA)…
Why we need to bring stellar astrophysics into the real world
Science Photo Library/Alamy RECENTLY, I was giving a tour of the University of New Hampshire’s department…
Astronomers have found the most distant black hole ever confirmed
The distant black hole is located in the UHZ-1 galaxy NASA/CXC/SAO; ESA/CSA/STScI Astronomers have found the…
Plants thrive in lunar soil with help from phosphorus-making bacteria
Tobacco seedlings growing in simulated lunar soil Yitong Xia Growing plants on the moon could be…
Plants thrive in lunar soil with help from phosphorus-making bacteria
The moon lacks the nutrients that plants need to grow, but adding three types of bacteria…