Pluto has one very large moon, Charon, and four tiny ones, leaving astronomers confused as to…
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Astronomers have spotted six possible exomoons in distant star systems
Moons are ubiquitous in our solar system, but we have not definitively found any farther afield…
Three exoplanets are close enough for us to see their atmospheres
A star just 11 light years away is calm enough that we may be able to…
Electric dust could be erasing signs of life from the surface of Mars
Dust grains rubbing together on Mars can generate electric charges and kick-start chemical reactions that could…
Some hot giant planets get larger as they are heated by their stars
Hot Jupiters, a class of large gas giant exoplanets, appear to get bigger as they are…
The Milky Way is about to completely obliterate a neighbouring galaxy
One of the Milky Way’s neighbour galaxies has been disrupting our galaxy’s disk for billions of…
The cosmic web that connects galaxies together may be spinning
Galaxies across the universe are connected by bridge-like filaments of matter that are the largest structures…
Exotic fifth state of matter made on the International Space Station
An instrument on board the International Space Station contains one of the coldest places in the…
Einstein was right about how extremely massive objects fall in space
A crucial pillar of Einstein’s theory of general relativity has been tested with the motion of…
Longest known comet tail stretched for over a billion kilometres
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft crossed paths with the elongated tail of a comet in 2002, picking up…