One of the mirrors of NASA’s huge new space observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope, was…
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Cosmic dawn ended 200 million years later than cosmologists thought
Using the light from 67 extremely distant quasars astronomers have calculated that cosmic dawn, the period…
NASA's CAPSTONE spacecraft will plot course for a lunar space station
As part of its Artemis programme to return humans to the moon, NASA is launching a…
How lessons learned from space exploration could feed the world
Sustainable food systems developed for deep space could help mitigate the food crisis, says Angelo Vermeulen …
The rise of SpinLaunch, the company planning to hurl things into space
In the desert of New Mexico, a centrifuge taller than the Statue of Liberty is being…
Betelgeuse star dimming puzzle solved by chance with weather satellite
The sudden dimming of Betelgeuse in 2019 has been puzzling astronomers ever since, but now we…
‘Zombie’ pulsar is spinning slower than should be physically possible
Most pulsars rotate once every couple of seconds, but one pulsar completes a revolution just once…
NASA awards $2 million to advance rainbow-coloured solar sail project
As part of its Innovative Advanced Concepts programme, NASA has given a major award to a…
Bricks made of dust from the Moon and Mars could make space buildings
Baking a mixture of saltwater and materials that mimic dust from the moon or Mars at…
One in every 50 planets may have been stolen from other stars
Planets can be snatched from one solar system by another in the early lives of stars…