An artist’s impression of the space junk orbiting Earth Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library/Alamy The rising threat…
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BepiColombo snaps Mercury’s dark craters and volcanic plains
The division between light and dark over the north pole of Mercury, viewed from the BepiColombo…
SpaceX: Starship to launch fake satellites on seventh test flight
The Starship rocket in December 2024 being prepared for its seventh flight SpaceX SpaceX’s next Starship…
New Glenn launch: Blue Origin’s reusable rocket set for maiden flight
New Glenn on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida Blue Origin Blue Origin, the space…
Pluto may have captured its moon Charon with a brief kiss
Pluto (right) and its moon Charon, photographed by NASA’s New Horizons probe in 2015 NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI Pluto…
Could 2025 be the year we finally start to understand dark energy?
This rainbow pattern shows the structure of 60,000 galaxies as captured by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument…
The stargazing events to look forward to in 2025
The northern lights in Denali National Park in Alaska in 2024 Tom Walker/Alamy As the new…
The best sci-fi books to look forward to in 2025 from Adrian Tchaikovsky to Ken Liu
Voyages, both interstellar and Earth-bound, frame many new sci-fi novels Shutterstock/PHOTOCREO Michal Bednarek I am writing…
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory gets started next year. I can’t wait
Rubin Observatory’s commissioning camera (ComCam) Rubin Observatory/NSF/AURA/H. Stockebrand Sometime in May or June, as the southern…
These are all of the missions heading to the moon in 2025
SpaceX wants to land its Starship rocket on the moon SpaceX Around a dozen landers are aiming for…