On 18 February, NASA’s Perseverance rover will land on Mars, where it will look for signs…
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Build colonies or save spacecraft in the best video games set on Mars
As real spacecraft begin to arrive at the Red Planet, let’s celebrate with Mars-based games like…
China’s Tianwen-1 mission is now orbiting Mars ahead of landing
The Tianwen-1 mission, China’s first independent interplanetary mission, has reached orbit around Mars and is now…
Avi Loeb interview: Could ‘Oumuamua be alien technology after all?
Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has drawn criticism for suggesting a weird object passing through the solar…
A dead star may have munched down on an icy exomoon
We have yet to confirm the existence of moons beyond the solar system, but astronomers say…
The United Arab Emirates’ Hope orbiter is about to arrive at Mars
The Hope spacecraft will enter orbit around Mars on 9 February, which will require a tricky…
Lines on Mars could be created by salty water triggering landslides
Strange dark streaks on the Martian surface called recurring slope lineae may be caused by salty…
Why the universe can be described by the equations of fluids
Studying the universe and the flow of fluids may seem worlds apart, but they involve some of…
Rare images show role of collisions in galactic evolution
These six rare and exquisite images of galactic evolution were taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.…
How to spot an alien megastructure: The new search for Dyson spheres
Intelligent extraterrestrials may have built vast solar power plants around their host stars. The hunt for…