The development of cosmic structure – the huge strands of galaxies and caverns of emptiness that…
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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…
Iconic supernova captured by the James Webb Space Telescope
The supernova 1987A lies around 168,000 light years from Earth, and is the closest stellar explosion…
Is an enormous shield the worst way to protect Earth from asteroids?
There are several reasonable ways to protect Earth from any potential asteroid threats, but in this…