How to spot Haumea, one of the solar system’s strangest objects

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How to spot the 2025 Lyrids and Eta Aquarids meteor showers

The Eta Aquarids meteor shower as visible in Sri Lanka in 2024 Thilina Kaluthotage/NurPhoto/ Getty Images…

Ringworld: Read a short extract of Larry Niven’s sci-fi epic for April’s Book Club

“But Louis Wu had gone alone, jumping ahead of the midnight line, hotly pursued by the…

Can Amazon’s soon-to-launch Kuiper satellites rival Musk’s Starlink?

United Launch Alliance is due to send 27 Kuiper satellites into low Earth orbit as Amazon…

How long is a day on Uranus? Slightly longer than we thought, it seems

Uranus as seen by the Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1986 NASA/JPL-Caltech A day on Uranus just…

Astronomer reviews the sci-fi movies that get creative with physics

Space is a favourite setting for many Hollywood films, but just how accurate are their portrayals?…

We could make solar panels on the moon by melting lunar dust

A boot print on the dusty surface of the moon Public domain sourced / access rights…

NASA cut $420 million for climate science, moon modelling and more

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Quantum eavesdropping could work even from inside a black hole

An observer hiding inside a black hole can eavesdrop on quantum objects outside it van van/Shutterstock…

Watch the partial solar eclipse from London’s Royal Observatory

By David Stock On 29 March, a partial solar eclipse will pass over Canada and parts…