Earth passes through a comet’s trail this week, producing a beautiful display of meteors in the…
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Don’t miss: Art confronts climate, a book on space junk, future talk
This week, discover how art and design take on climate change, read all about our space…
Hayabusa 2 begins long journey home carrying Ryugu asteroid samples
With two samples from the interior of the asteroid Ryugu on board, Japan’s Hayabusa 2 spacecraft…
Distant space rock known as Ultima Thule renamed to avoid Nazi links
The space rock that the New Horizons probe visited earlier this year had been nicknamed Ultima…
Star systems full of planetary smash-ups are bad news for alien life
We’ve seen the remains of a collision between two planets in a distant star system –…
Spaceflight alters heart cells but they quickly recover back on Earth
Spaceflight causes thousands of changes in the ways heart cell genes are expressed, but these revert…
Voyager 2 sent back its first detailed data from interstellar space
Voyager 2 left our solar system in 2018 and has now sent back measurements from interstellar…
Cosmological crisis: We don't know if the universe is round or flat
An analysis of data from the Planck space observatory suggests the universe is spherical, which would…
We've finally figured out what happens when a star explodes
Explosions normally require a build-up of pressure, so how can they occur in the vacuum of…
We’ve found a black hole that may be smaller than any ever seen before
Astronomers have spotted a black hole just 3.3 times the mass of the sun about 10,000…