Venus seen next to and above the crescent moon just before a daytime occultation in 2015…
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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…
Astronomers have found the most distant black hole ever confirmed
The most distant supermassive black hole confirmed is more than 31 billion light years away, and…
Why we need to bring stellar astrophysics into the real world
Explaining the structure and evolution of stars may seem as esoteric as can be, but there…
Distant Milky Way-like galaxy is older than we thought possible
The most distant Milky Way-like galaxy ever seen – a barred spiral galaxy – has been…