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New Scientist – Space
Titan’s odd-shaped lakes may have formed from underground explosions
Saturn’s moon Titan has some lakes that are strangely shaped and appear to have formed from…
India's Vikram moon lander appears to have crashed on the moon
The Indian Chandrayaan 2 mission sent a lander towards the surface of the moon, but we…
Shep Doeleman on the Breakthrough Prize-winning black hole photo
The team behind the first ever image of a black hole has won the prestigious $3m…
How a Soviet space station became a symbol of space cooperation
Many disasters befell the space station Mir, not least the collapse of the state that built…
Einstein’s black holes are not the black holes we see in reality
We’re only just grasping how cosmic black holes and Einstein’s theories relate – and that deepens…
Sci-fi film Aniara's best trick is to make the future feel like now
Aniara’s story of an interplanetary cruiser thrown off-course is one of 2019’s smartest movies because it…
SpaceX satellite near miss shows need for rules of the road in space
Two satellites have almost collided in space. With the number of satellites set to increase 10…
We may have seen signs of an exomoon spewing out volcanic gas
Astronomers have spotted a plume of sodium near a distant planet. The gas is so far…
Puzzling signals seen by LIGO may be gravitational wave split in two
LIGO has seen two gravitational waves in the same day in a similar place. This puzzling…