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Will SpaceX’s Starship rocket ever work – and what if it doesn’t?
Starship’s ninth test flight took place on 27 May Joe Marino/UPI/Shutterstock Another launch, another failure? With…
Was Planet Nine exiled from the solar system as a baby?
An artist’s illustration of a potential Planet Nine Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library/Alamy If the solar system…
The sun is killing off SpaceX’s Starlink satellites
An artist’s impression of a Starlink satellite in orbit La Nacion/ZUMA Press/Alamy Eruptions from the sun…
Physicists are waging a cosmic battle over the nature of dark energy
The Kitt Peak National Observatory, near Tucson, Arizona, is home to DESI KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Marenfeld Is dark…
New dwarf planet spotted at the edge of the solar system
The orbits of a potential dwarf planet called 2017 OF201 and the dwarf planet Sedna Tony…
Weird planet is orbiting backwards between two stars
We have confirmation that a strange plant is orbiting between two stars Aaron Alien/Shutterstock After years…
Tianwen-2: China is readying a mission to two rocky bodies in our solar system
An artist’s impression of Earth’s quasi-satellite Kamo`oalewa, the first destination of the Tianwen-2 mission Addy Graham/University…
Earliest galaxy ever seen offers glimpse of the nascent universe
A deep-field image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope containing thousands of distant galaxies NASA,…
K2-18b: Astronomers double down on claim of strongest evidence for alien life
An artist’s impression of the exoplanet K2-18b NASA Astronomers are still arguing about whether we have…