NASA’s Cassini spacecraft crossed paths with the elongated tail of a comet in 2002, picking up…
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New Scientist – Space
We can learn from ingenuity of space travel to solve problems on Earth
Endeavours such as space travel show what humanity can do when we pull together to achieve…
Why the universe I invented is right – but still not the final answer
Nobel prizewinner Jim Peebles introduced dark matter and dark energy into our standard model of the…
Mars’s moon Phobos may someday turn back into a ring around the planet
Mars’s moon Phobos may go through cycles where it is smashed up and becomes a ring…
The entire universe may once have been spinning all over the place
A strange asymmetry in the rotation of galaxies we see today hints that the early universe…
NASA and SpaceX launch astronauts into new era of private spaceflight
On 30 May, SpaceX and NASA pulled off a historic launch – the first private spacecraft…
The Milky Way may have been shrunk down by ancient magnetic fields
Magnetic fields from the early universe may have kept the Milky Way and other galaxies like…
Why it's better to fall into a big black hole, and other bizarre facts
Black holes exert a powerful pull on our imagination, but their weirdness starts way before you…
The amazing Antarctic discovery that could tell us how Earth was made
Explorers trawling the polar ice have finally unearthed a trove of precious, iron-rich space rocks that…
Strange radio signals reveal the matter hiding between galaxies
One space mystery has helped solve another, with the discovery that strange space signals called fast…