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Intuitive Machines: Athena lander reached the moon – but seems to have fallen over
The IM-2 mission in low lunar orbit Intuitive Machines Intuitive Machines’ Athena lander has made it…
Two huge black holes merged into one and went flying across the cosmos
An image of the quasar 3C 186, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope NASA’s Goddard Space…
Radcliffe wave: The solar system was once engulfed by a vast amount of gas and dust
The Radcliffe wave is a series of dust and gas clouds, marked here in red, across…
The cosmic landscape of time that explains our universe’s expansion
Imagine looking out over a beautiful vista. The sun glances off the snowy peaks of distant…
The first water may have formed surprisingly soon after the big bang
Water was born as the result of exploding stars pixelparticle/Getty Images The first water molecules may…
Firefly’s Blue Ghost spacecraft makes second ever commercial landing on the moon
Blue Ghost took a photo of its shadow on the lunar surface, with Earth in the…
Spacecraft may need to be dirtier to keep astronauts healthy
The International Space Station may be a bit too clean Geopix/Alamy The strategy of keeping spacecraft…
Planetary alignment: How to see every planet in the solar system at once this week
An artist’s impression of the solar system Shutterstock/Vadim Sadovski All of our solar system’s planets are…
Medicines made in space set to touch down in Australian outback
Varda’s first capsule, W-1, after landing in Utah in February 2024 John Kraus/Varda Sometime this…