Mud on the surface of Mars probably flows like lava does on Earth, which makes it…
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Strange 'space cow' explosion may have been the birth of a black hole
A mysterious space explosion nicknamed “the Cow” was probably caused by the explosion of a massive…
Women in space: The glorious past – and future – of female astronauts
Come hear from Sue Nelson about the remarkable Wally Funk, and the amazing past of female…
ESA spacecraft might accidentally fly through the tail of a comet
The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter spacecraft was launched earlier this year to study the sun,…
Stars in the Milky Way's centre often get dangerously close together
About 80 per cent of stars in the Milky Way’s central bulge have relatively close encounters…
A large chunk of Mercury may have been blown away by the sun
Mercury is much denser than the other rocky planets in the solar system, and that may…
The moon is emitting carbon, raising questions about how it was formed
The leading hypothesis for how the moon formed involves a collision between a Mars-sized object and…
You can 'see' the closest known black hole to Earth with the naked eye
Astronomers found a star that appeared to be orbiting nothing at all – but it’s actually…
An ancient river on Mars may have flowed for 100,000 years
We’ve found a 200-metre cliff in Mars’s Hellas basin, the first evidence of a river that…
China just tested a spacecraft that could fly to the moon and beyond
China just tested its biggest rocket yet, along with a new capsule designed to carry humans…