We know Venus had many active volcanoes in the past, but now researchers have identified 37…
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Launch of the James Webb Space Telescope delayed again due to covid-19
The launch of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has been delayed from March 2021 to October…
Closest images ever taken of the sun show 'campfires' near its surface
The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter spacecraft has captured the closest ever images of the sun,…
The United Arab Emirates is launching its first mission to Mars
A summer of many Mars missions is about to began as the United Arab Emirates prepares…
Elements from the universe’s earliest stars gave birth to our sun
It is easy to regard the sun as humdrum, yet it contains elements blasted from the…
We don't know how fast the universe is expanding, and that's a problem
Different ways of measuring how fast the expansion of the universe is accelerating disagree with one…
Earth-sized exoplanets around small stars may have intense hurricanes
Hurricanes may be common on exoplanets that orbit small, red stars over the course of about…
How to see the spectacular comet Neowise with the naked eye
Comet Neowise is currently putting on an impressive show for observers in the northern hemisphere, and…
The moon may have stopped the early Earth from being a frozen snowball
Astronomers have long been puzzled by the faint young sun paradox, which says the sun would…
Alien civilisations could move their star to avoid a cosmic disaster
A researcher has come up with an idea for a huge machine that advanced civilisations could…