Pluto officially lost its planethood in 2006, and this episode of Dead Planets Society is all…
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New Scientist – Space
How to spot green comet Nishimura in the skies this week
Comet Nishimura, which was discovered just a month ago, is about to make its closest approach…
The universe’s evolution seems to be slowing and we don’t know why
The development of cosmic structure – the huge strands of galaxies and caverns of emptiness that…
Why it's a big deal that India beat Russia in the new race to the moon
The success of the Indian Space Research Organisation mission to the moon places India as a…
Japan launches moon lander and X-ray space telescope on same rocket
The Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) probe and XRISM X-ray space telescope blasted off from…
Asteroid hit by NASA spacecraft is behaving unexpectedly
When NASA crashed its DART spacecraft into the asteroid Dimorphos, the goal was to shorten the…
Never-before-seen space explosion is incredibly bright but fades fast
An explosion that was billions of times brighter than the sun but faded within a month…
India's moon craft enter sleep mode and await freezing lunar night
The Chandrayaan-3 mission is officially complete, with both the rover and lander powering down for the…
India set to launch probe to investigate mysteries of the sun
The Aditya-L1 satellite will sit between the sun and Earth and provide constant observation data to…
Have interstellar meteor fragments really been found in the ocean?
Astrophysicist Avi Loeb and his team claim to be the first to have found fragments from an…