The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission is scheduled to launch on 24 November and will…
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Astronomers have found a second trojan asteroid sharing Earth’s orbit
An Earth trojan is an asteroid that shares our planet’s orbit around the sun, moving just…
13 of the most profound questions about the cosmos and ourselves
Questions that are just as enigmatic now as when we first asked them Click…
Why is there something not nothing? The big bang isn’t the only answer
The idea that the universe started in the big bang revolutionised 20th-century cosmology. But it seems…
Why haven't we heard from aliens? There is a reason for the silence
The search for extraterrestrial intelligence has been going on for 60 years without success. Given the…
Iodine-powered satellite successfully tested in space for first time
Many satellites use xenon as a propellant to help them change orbit or avoid collisions, but…
Why do we exist? The meaning of life isn’t to be found in the stars
We are tiny specks of life in a vast, indifferent cosmos – but to say that…
Anti-satellite weapons: Will further tests make space more dangerous?
After the Russian military smashed a defunct satellite, creating a cloud of dangerous debris, other powers…
The biggest moons of Uranus may have oceans beneath their icy shells
Uranus’s two biggest moons, Titania and Oberon, may have enough radioactive heat to maintain deep liquid…
Enigmatic Planet Nine may have been seen by telescope in the 1980s
There is an ongoing debate about whether a huge “super-Earth” lurks in the far reaches of…