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New Scientist – Space
A stargazer's guide to the equinox and how Earth moves around the sun
As the September equinox falls, we begin a new astronomy series with all you need to…
Does alien life have to look like us? Or even be intelligent?
Imagined Life, a riveting update of what we know about the planets beyond our solar system,…
Saturn's moon Enceladus is having a snowball fight with other moons
Three of Saturn’s icy moons are twice as shiny as we thought they were, and it’s…
The most powerful volcano on Jupiter's moon Io is about to explode
The largest and most powerful of the 400 volcanoes on Jupiter’s moon Io erupts on a…
Black hole that 'rings' like a bell shows Einstein was right
Astronomers have looked at the way a black hole ‘rings’ like a bell to test a…
We may have spotted an interstellar comet flying towards Earth
Astronomers have found a comet that seems to have come from beyond our solar system, which…
We may have spotted an interstellar comet flying toward Earth
Astronomers have found a comet that seems to have come from beyond our solar system, which…
This watery planet is the best place to hunt life we've seen so far
We’ve spotted water vapour in the atmosphere of a distant planet twice Earth’s size. It’s probably…
There is a pair of weird, gigantic bubbles at the centre of our galaxy
There are strange bubbles of particles looming above and below the Milky Way, and they may…