NASA has selected four crew members to travel around the moon in its Artemis II mission,…
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NASA announces four astronauts for Artemis II mission around the moon
NASA has selected four crew members to travel around the moon in its Artemis II mission,…
We may finally know how Hawking's black hole paradox could be solved
Under the laws of quantum mechanics, information about what has fallen into a black hole cannot…
Bits of Saturn’s rings are falling onto the planet and heating it up
Observations from five spacecraft over 40 years have shown that as Saturn’s rings slowly disintegrate, the…
This map of Venus shows every volcano we know about on its surface
Mapping the volcanoes of Venus is surprisingly easier than doing the same on Earth, because many…
JWST has spotted the earliest black hole ever seen in the universe
The discovery of a black hole that formed just 570 million years after the big bang…
How to spot the Beehive cluster in the constellation of Cancer
Nestled within the faintest of the zodiacal constellations, the Beehive cluster can be tricky to find,…
Why space scientists need science fiction
Carl Sagan’s novel Contact, in which Ellie Arroway searches for alien intelligence, has been an inspiration…
The most powerful space explosion ever seen keeps baffling astronomers
A gamma ray burst observed in 2022 was brighter than any explosion ever spotted before, and…
JWST finds the planet TRAPPIST-1b may not have an atmosphere
Many researchers thought the worlds orbiting the star TRAPPIST-1 would have thick atmospheres, but new observations…