China has released the first batch of science images from its Zhurong Mars rover, following its…
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The European Space Agency is sending another spacecraft to Venus
NASA’s two planned missions to Venus are getting a companion – the European Space Agency has…
What would happen if there was no moon? Science with Sam explains
What does the moon actually do? Does it really need to be there? And, what would…
Thousands of mysterious radio signals blast through the universe daily
Astronomers have discovered many more fast radio bursts in space, almost quadruple the amount known previously.…
Wind from supermassive black holes may help small galaxies thrive
Some supermassive black holes blast out powerful winds that astrophysicists suspected could kill small neighbouring galaxies…
The building blocks for life might exist at the edge of the galaxy
Astronomers have found molecules that could be the building blocks of life in the far reaches…
Impossibly huge black holes may have come from weird ancient stars
Gravitational wave observatories have spotted black holes that were too massive to be explained by our…
Science with Sam: What would happen if there was no moon?
The moon may seem little more than a boring piece of rock, barely worth keeping. But…
Two giant icy balls in space could change our understanding of stars
A pair of mysterious, gigantic balls of frozen gas in the Milky Way have left astronomers…
Line of galaxies is so big it breaks our understanding of the universe
An arc of galaxies stretching for 3.3 billion light years seems to contradict a core tenet…