NASA’s Perseverance rover, which will look for signs of past or present life on Mars and…
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Katherine Joy: Uncovering the secrets of the moon
Think the moon is grey and boring? Think again. For University of Manchester lunar geologist, Katherine…
Women in space: an interview with Varsha Jain and Libby Jackson
Getting more women into space is essential if we’re ever to run longer missions or even…
Black holes are hiding movies of the universe in their glowing rings
A faint fuzzy glow around the first black hole image last year baffled astronomers. Now we…
Biggest ever map of the universe reveals 11 billion years of history
A huge survey of the universe has been able to peer back into the deep past,…
Mould from Chernobyl nuclear reactor tested as radiation shield on ISS
A radiation-absorbing fungus discovered in Chernobyl blocked harmful cosmic rays on the International Space Station and…
A giant impact may have caused cracks all over Jupiter's moon Ganymede
New analysis of images of cracks on Ganymede indicate that they cover most of the surface…
China is sending its first rover to Mars with the Tianwen-1 mission
China is launching its first solo interplanetary mission, called Tianwen-1, to Mars on 23 July. If…
Moon craters hint huge asteroids bombarded Earth 800 million years ago
Craters on the moon show it was probably bombarded with asteroids about 800 million years ago,…
The universe may be full of enormous clusters of tiny black holes
If tiny black holes born at the beginning of the universe survived to the present day,…