A brown dwarf – partway between a planet and a star – has been spotted engulfed…
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Strange hexagonal diamonds found in meteorite from another planet
Diamonds found in four meteorites in north-west Africa probably came from an ancient dwarf planet, and…
JWST has caught hot stars destroying gas and dust in the Orion Nebula
The James Webb Space Telescope has peered through the clouds of the Orion Nebula to spot…
Remastered Apollo images reveal hidden details of NASA lunar missions
Half a century after the last person walked on the moon, original imagery from the Apollo…
Huge satellite could outshine all stars and planets in the night sky
Astronomers are concerned that the BlueWalker 3 satellite, which will use an antenna the size of…
Juno spacecraft prepares for close encounter with icy moon Europa
A NASA probe will swoop to around 350 kilometres above Europa’s surface on 29 September, returning…
Remastered Apollo mission photos are simply out of this world
Half a century after the last person walked on the moon, original footage has been digitally…
Watch a lunar occultation of Uranus
If you live in Europe, north Africa or north-west Asia, you can watch Uranus pass behind…
Two potentially habitable super-Earth planets have been discovered
A pair of rocky planets orbiting the star LP 890-9, also known as SPECULOOS 2, seem…
Swarm of light-sail spacecraft could be propelled by laser on the moon
A laser mounted on the moon could propel small spacecraft carrying light sails through space to…