What appeared to be the first moon ever discovered around planet circling another star may not…
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Battle of the exomoon: Astronomers can't agree on controversial find
What appeared to be the first moon ever discovered around a planet circling another star may…
Wonky black hole spotted rapidly eating a doughnut made from a star
Black holes normally emit jets of material from their poles, but astronomers have spotted one with…
Titan has a belt of ice 6300 kilometres long that shouldn't be there
The surface of Saturn’s moon Titan is mostly coated in a thick layer of sediment, but…
The moon may be made of magma that once covered Earth’s entire surface
The moon’s makeup is extremely similar to Earth’s – perhaps because a huge rock smashed into…
Tomorrow Inc: how Stanley Kubrick designed the future
Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition comes to London’s Design Museum, and in its wake a renewed fascination…
Japan's Hayabusa 2 bombed an asteroid and took pictures of the crater
New images captured by Japan’s Hayabusa 2 confirm that the spacecraft successfully blew a hole in…
NASA’s InSight lander on Mars has felt its first marsquakes
Measuring seismic activity on Mars could help us figure out how much water the planet has,…
SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule lost after 'anomaly' during ground test
The Crew Dragon capsule is intended to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station, but a…
Satellites are checking if boats in remote places are fishing legally
The Indonesian government is using tiny internet-providing satellites to check if boats in the middle of…