Saturn now has a total of 274 moons NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute A further 128 moons have…
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The asteroid Bennu is even weirder than we thought
A mosaic image of asteroid Bennu composed of images collected by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft NASA/Goddard/University of…
Saturn has 128 new moons – more than the rest of the planets combined
Saturn now has a total of 274 moons NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute A further 128 moons have…
Eerie image of a space-bound rocket among photo contest finalists
A Soyuz MS rocket at Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan Rhiannon Adam This ghostly image of a…
Speeding star offers a rare glimpse of the Milky Way’s galactic centre
A map of the sky assembled using data from the Gaia space telescope, with the centre…
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…