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Caves carved by water on Mars may hold signs of past life
Channels, pits and caves in the Hebrus Valles on Mars may have been carved by ancient…
Enceladus’s ocean may be even better for life than we realised
Plumes of ice particles, water vapour and organic molecules spray from Enceladus’s south polar region NASA/JPL-Caltech…
A distant galaxy is being strangled by the cosmic web
Simulation of the large scale structure of a galaxy cluster Illustris Collaboration/ESO The cosmic web is…
Slow Gods review: Deep-space sci-fi novel is delightful, profound and not to be missed
It’s bad luck for those living on Adjumir, which is set to be obliterated DETLEV VAN…
We may never figure out where interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS came from
A deep image of 3I/ATLAS captured by the International Gemini Observatory in Chile, showing the coma…
Is the expansion of the universe slowing down?
The Tycho supernova remnant NASA/CXC/RIKEN & GSFC/T. Sato et al; DSS It’s widely been thought that…
Lumpy ‘caterpillar wormholes’ may connect entangled black holes
Sometimes wormholes are lumpy Shutterstock / Champhei What happens when two black holes become connected through…
Brightest black hole flare ever caused by huge star being ripped apart
A supermassive black hole in the process of shredding an enormous star Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC) Astronomers…
SpaceX’s Starlink and other satellites face growing threat from sun
Starlink satellite trails, as seen from space Don Pettit/NASA The number of satellites in orbit is…