Anu Ojha, UK National Space Academy director, on the coolest moons in the solar system, finding…
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We've discovered 20 more moons of Saturn – and you can help name them
We have discovered 20 new moons orbiting Saturn, all of them less than 5 kilometres across.…
Microbial life might drift in the atmospheres of failed stars
Brown dwarfs are too large to be planets and too small to be stars, but they…
We can send a probe to interstellar comet Borisov – but not until 2030
Astronomers are racing to learn about only the second interstellar object ever seen. We now know…
Weird repeating signals from deep space may be created by starquakes
Fast radio bursts are mysterious signals from space. Some of them repeat many times – and…
We've had our best glimpse of a web of matter that spans the universe
A vast spider web of matter is thought to stretch across the universe. Now astronomers have…
Andromeda galaxy ate several dwarf galaxies in two-course lunch
Our nearest major galaxy, Andromeda, has eaten several smaller galaxies over its lifetime. Now we have…
The imperial units error that downed a multi-million-dollar Mars probe
20 years ago, NASA’s Mars Climate Orbiter dived too deep and was crushed in Mars’s atmosphere.…
How to measure light pollution where you live by counting stars
If you’re an urban stargazer it helps to know how much light pollution there is in…
Dust is annoying, but it is also key to life and death in the cosmos
Dust gives us trouble, whether at home or in space, but it plays a key role…