Interstellar cloud mapped by listening to its magnetic waves

Magnetic waves vibrating through an interstellar cloud called Musca reveal its 3D shape. We though it…

Mystery of the cosmic dawn: What’s eating the first starlight?

A shoestring experiment in the Australian outback has seen the signal of the very first stars…

ESA eyes Venus mission or space telescope to launch by 2030

The European Space Agency has three finalists for a mission to launch by 2030: a Venus…

ESA eyes Venus mission or space telescope to launch by 2030

The European Space Agency has three finalists for a mission to launch by 2030: a Venus…

Exoplanet with a cloudless sky may let us see inside a gas giant

A distant gas giant with one of the clearest atmospheres ever detected could let us see…

The sun will die in a blaze of swirling gas in 5 billion years

We used to think our sun was too small to produce a planetary nebula when it…

Exoplanet with a cloudless sky may let us see inside a gas giant

A distant gas giant with one of the clearest atmospheres ever detected could let us see…

The sun will die in a blaze of swirling gas in 5 billion years

We used to think our sun was too small to produce a planetary nebula when it…

NASA sent a robot to the Red Planet to listen for marsquakes

Under a blanket of fog, NASA’s InSight lander and a pair of cubesats roared into space…

Watching NASA’s InSight spacecraft blast off towards Mars

Under a blanket of fog, NASA’s InSight lander and a pair of cubesats roared into space…