The Breakthrough Listen project has found a strange beam of radio waves from Proxima Centauri, which…
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Jupiter Saturn conjunction: How to see tonight's 'Christmas star'
Get ready for 21 December 2020, when the “winter solstice great conjunction” of Jupiter and Saturn…
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: 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…
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…
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…