Quadrantid “fireball” in Tres Piedras, New Mexico, in January 2020 Mike Lewinski CC BY 2.0 DEED…
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The stargazing events to watch out for in 2024
I HAVE been making notes about the stargazing spectacles I hope to see this year. Many…
A renegade moon may have flipped Venus’s spin
Venus spins in the opposite direction to all of the other planets in the solar system…
Neptune isn’t as blue as we thought it was
The original Voyager 2 photo of Neptune (left) and the reprocessed image from the new study…
‘This century is special’: Astronomer Royal Martin Rees on the vast span of time
Martin Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, British cosmologist and astrophysicist. DAVID LEVENSON/Getty Images IN OUR everyday…
The first Vulcan rocket launch will carry a private lander to the moon
A United Launch Alliance Vulcan rocket is being prepared to launch from Cape Canaveral in Florida…
Vulcan launch: Why is NASA going back to the moon?
NASA’s first mission to the moon’s surface since the Apollo missions in the 1970s has begun…
Meet Christina Koch, who will be the first woman to go to the moon
CHRISTINA KOCH has the kind of job children dream of. Beginning in 2019, on her first…
NASA’s Vulcan launch: The Peregrine lunar lander may not make it to the moon
A picture from Peregrine showing a disturbance of the insulation in the foreground Astrobotic Things are…
It might rain diamonds on more than 1900 exoplanets across the galaxy
Diamond rain may fall on a large number of exoplanets Shutterstock The skies of icy planets…