Many planets that have the right temperatures for liquid water on their surfaces used to be…
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New Scientist – Space
Supermassive black hole snacks on the same star once every few years
A black hole almost 900 million light years away consumes part of an orbiting star every…
JWST has taken astonishing images of debris orbiting a nearby star
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has observed a glowing disc of debris left over from planet…
The Milky Way seems to be missing nearly half of its regular matter
Measurements of a blast of radio waves passing through our galaxy have shown that the Milky…
NASA picture is best yet of a permanently shadowed region on the moon
The new ShadowCam instrument has sent its first image back from lunar orbit, showing the inside…
JWST finds that ancient galaxies contain fewer stars than we expected
A group of ancient galaxies examined by the James Webb Space Telescope contain an order of…
First satellite launch from the UK failed due to an ‘anomaly’
Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne rocket and a group of nine satellites it was taking to low-Earth orbit…
Livestream: First satellite launch from the UK
First satellite launch from the UK set to go ahead tonight in Cornwall Click…
First satellite launch from the UK set to go ahead tonight in Cornwall
Cosmic Girl, a modified Boeing 747 plane, is set to carry Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne rocket and…
First satellite launch from the UK set to go ahead in Cornwall
Cosmic Girl, a modified Boeing 747 plane, is set to carry Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne rocket and…