Get ready for 21 December 2020, when the “winter solstice great conjunction” of Jupiter and Saturn…
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NASA's Parker Solar Probe had a surprise close encounter with a comet
A spacecraft on a mission to the sun had a surprise encounter with a comet last…
China’s Chang’e 5 mission has returned samples from the moon to Earth
The Chang’e 5 spacecraft, which spent just two days on the moon, has returned its lunar…
2020 in review: The hunt for life on Venus continues
Clara Sousa-Silva spent most of 2020 sitting on a huge secret – the apparent detection of…
2020 in review: Earth acquired a minimoon the size of a 6-year-old
An object spotted near Earth in January has since been confirmed as a temporary moon around…
Searching for stardust: How to find micrometeorites in your gutters
Space dust is constantly falling to Earth, sprinkling rooftops with beautiful particles unchanged since the birth…
Jupiter Saturn conjunction: How to see the 'Christmas star' of 2020
Get ready for 21 December 2020, when the “great conjunction” of Jupiter and Saturn brings them…
We may have seen a huge explosion in the oldest galaxy in the universe
An explosion of high-energy radiation may have been spotted coming from a galaxy in the distant…
SpaceX's Starship spacecraft made its highest flight yet then exploded
The latest prototype of Starship, the spacecraft that SpaceX plans to use to bring astronauts to…
China launched two satellites to find sources of gravitational waves
A pair of satellites launched from China carry detectors for gamma rays and charged particles, which…