Artist’s impression of the path the fast radio burst FRB 20220610A took between the galaxy where…
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Orionids: How to see the Halley’s comet meteor shower in October and November
The Orionids, seen over Daqing in Heilongjiang province, China, on 22 October 2020 Sipa US /…
The moon is 40 million years older than we thought it was
The moon may have formed at least 4.46 billion years ago – 40 million years earlier…
Bright gamma ray burst might mean space is more transparent than we thought
GRB221009A surrounded by dust rings, pictured by the XMM-Newton X-ray space observatory ESA/XMM-Newton/M. Rigoselli (INAF) The…
What would it take to make the most inhospitable planet for life?
There’s only one planet that we know of that hosts life – Earth. So what makes…
Ice-spewing supervolcano may have been found on Pluto
A photo of Pluto taken by NASA’s New Horizons mission NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest…
Lunar eclipse 2023: What time is the October Blood moon partial eclipse?
A partial lunar eclipse in Regensburg, Germany, in 2017 Thomas Koschnick/Alamy Solar and lunar eclipses always…
Strange supernova blasts hint we have glimpsed a black hole’s birth
An illustration of a black hole created after a supernova Christoph Burgstedt/Science Photo Library/Alamy We may…
Mouse embryos have been grown in space for the first time
A microscope image of mouse embryos after they had returned from the International Space Station Teruhiko…
Lunar eclipse 2023: October blood moon captured in stunning images around the world
The partial lunar eclipse on 28 October in Munich, Germany Imago/Alamy Photographers around the world captured…