Half a century after the last person walked on the moon, original footage has been digitally…
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Watch a lunar occultation of Uranus
If you live in Europe, north Africa or north-west Asia, you can watch Uranus pass behind…
Two potentially habitable super-Earth planets have been discovered
A pair of rocky planets orbiting the star LP 890-9, also known as SPECULOOS 2, seem…
Swarm of light-sail spacecraft could be propelled by laser on the moon
A laser mounted on the moon could propel small spacecraft carrying light sails through space to…
Weird, enormous planets may be stolen from stars in 'planetary heists'
Strange planets nicknamed BEASTies are unlikely to have formed around their stars like most worlds, so…
JWST's dazzling nebula image shows stars we have never seen before
Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to peer through the filaments of dust and…
JWST has spotted sandy clouds on a distant alien world
Brown dwarfs are too massive to be a planet but not large enough to be a…
First exoplanet picture from James Webb Space Telescope revealed
For the first time, astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have directly captured an image…
Risk for Orion is even higher than for SLS, says NASA official
The Artemis I launch is planned for 3 September. NASA official Thomas Zurbuchen says it will…
NASA made enough oxygen on Mars to last an astronaut for 100 minutes
NASA’s MOXIE experiment on Mars has produced about 100 minutes’ worth of breathable oxygen, raising hopes…