Venus has a core that is approximately 7000 kilometres in diameter – about the same as…
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Michael Collins: Apollo 11 pilot and 'loneliest man ever' dies aged 90
Michael Collins, the third Apollo 11 crew member who piloted the first manned mission to the…
Why bringing Martian rocks back to Earth is a bad idea
There are plans to return samples from Mars to check them for signs of life, but…
China is about to start building a space station in orbit
China is about to launch the first section of a new space station, beginning a massive…
Antimatter stars may lurk in the solar system’s neighbourhood
There have been hints that 14 unlikely and exotic stars made of antimatter, called antistars, could…
Astronauts ride reused SpaceX capsule and rocket for the first time
Astronauts from NASA, the ESA and Japanese space agency JAXA have blasted off to the International…
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter has taken its second flight on Mars
The Ingenuity helicopter, which on 19 April became the first powered aircraft to fly on Mars,…
Sun-like stars spotted ejecting huge bursts of matter into space
Several sun-like stars have been observed ejecting huge bursts of particles into space, which might help…
Stowaway review: A claustrophobic and philosophical space thriller
Netflix ‘s Stowaway, starring Anna Kendrick, Daniel Dae Kim, Shamier Anderson and Toni Collette, tells the…
NASA has produced oxygen on the surface of Mars for the first time
The MOXIE experiment, which flew with NASA’s Perseverance rover to Mars, has turned some of the…