The outer solar system holds some chunks of ice and rock that orbit so far from…
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NASA’s Juno spacecraft takes closest images of Europa for 20 years
NASA’s Juno spacecraft flew just 352 kilometres above Jupiter’s moon Europa, sending back extraordinarily detailed images…
SpaceX may help the Hubble Space Telescope boost its lifespan
NASA and SpaceX are studying whether it would be possible to use a Dragon spacecraft to…
When two galaxies collide they often stop making new stars
When two galaxies collide, it creates a burst of energy that kills off star formation –…
Hubble and JWST both saw the aftermath of NASA's DART asteroid mission
After NASA’s DART mission slammed into the asteroid Dimorphos, the Hubble Space Telescope and the James…
The cosmos doesn't work to my research schedule – but that's OK
I work on the dark matter problem knowing the questions I have may be answered long…
Light from a quasar shows hints of one of the universe’s first stars
Astronomers examining a quasar may have found remnants of the explosion of one of the first…
JWST has taken a picture of the gaseous ‘skeleton’ of a spiral galaxy
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has taken a picture of the galaxy IC 5332, peering through…
Earth’s surface may be teeming with trillions of dark matter particles
When dark matter is captured inside a planet or star, much of it sinks to the…
First images show aftermath of NASA's DART asteroid collision mission
As NASA’s DART spacecraft slammed into an asteroid, a small satellite called LICIACube watched from afar…