Voyagers follows a group of genetically engineered children on their way to a distant planet. It…
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We’ve caught a black hole devouring a neutron star for the first time
Astronomers have definitively detected a black hole devouring a neutron star for the first – and…
Jupiter's strange atmosphere may have formed in a gigantic shadow
The mix of gases that make up Jupiter’s atmosphere have long puzzled astronomers, but now it…
The clouds of Venus are too dry to support life as we know it
An analysis of Venus’s toxic clouds found that the amount of water there is more than…
Clays found in Martian crater hint that the planet was once habitable
Parts of Mars may have been habitable for thousands of years, based on analysis of clays…
We finally know when the first stars in the universe switched on
The most detailed observations of some of the most distant galaxies we have ever seen have…
Why the big bang may not have been the beginning of the universe
We once thought the big bang was a single moment, but physicists are now settling on…
The hunt for a primordial force that would revolutionise cosmology
Finding magnetic fields dating back to the big bang would transform our understanding of how the…
Aliens orbiting 1402 stars near Earth could be looking at us right now
Possible alien inhabitants living on planets orbiting 1402 nearby stars could easily spot Earth – and…
Venus has huge landmasses that jostle about like Earth's continents
Huge blocks of Venus’s crust appear to be jostling and bumping together similar to continental blocks…