NASA’s Perseverance rover has found rocks near its landing site at Jezero crater with a surprising…
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Milky Way shakes: The cosmic collisions that made our galaxy
Intricate patterns in the movements of millions of stars are revealing the history of our home…
2021 in review: Space tourism begins – for billionaires, anyway
A flurry of short flights aboard privately funded craft saw space tourism begin with a bang…
2021 in review: Three different missions land on Mars
Over the course of just 10 days in February, three missions arrived at Mars. Together, they…
My encounter with a different and deeply mysterious kind of corona
While teaching solar physics this year, I was once again drawn in by the mystery of…
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is the first spacecraft to 'touch' the sun
A spacecraft designed to study the sun up close has entered its upper atmosphere for the…
Apollo 17 rock sample hints the moon cooled faster than we thought
A rock sample collected from the moon during the Apollo 17 mission in 1972 has been…
We’ve seen our galaxy’s huge black hole more clearly than ever before
Astronomers have observed Sagittarius A* – the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy…
A pair of pulsars in a tight embrace have proved Einstein right again
After monitoring a pair of pulsars in tight orbit around one another for 16 years, astronomers…
Baffling 'space cow' explosion was probably a failed supernova
A mysterious space explosion dubbed “the Cow” was far brighter and faster than a typical supernova,…