The predicted path of asteroid CAQTDL2 over the Philippines Catalina Sky Survey/ESA Astronomers have just discovered…
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We finally know exactly how dark deep space is
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft in deep space NASA, APL, SwRI, Serge Brunier (ESO), Marc Postman (STScI),…
Huge asteroid impact may have knocked over Jupiter’s largest moon
The solar system’s largest moon, Ganymede, alongside Jupiter in a picture taken by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft…
What are the weird noises coming from Boeing’s Starliner capsule?
Boeing’s Starliner capsule carried astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams to the International Space Station NASA/Johnson…
Astronomers puzzled by little red galaxies that seem impossibly dense
JWST images of little red dot galaxies Josephine F.W. Baggen et al. (2024) Strangely bright galaxies…
Falling satellite will give clues to how objects burn up on re-entry
An illustration of three of the four satellites that make up the Cluster mission to monitor…
Dark matter could be hiding inside strange failed stars
Illustration of a swiftly rotating brown dwarf NASA/JPL-Caltech Dark matter-fuelled brown dwarfs could be lurking at…
SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn crew set to attempt the riskiest spacewalk yet
The four crew members of the Polaris Dawn mission SpaceX SpaceX is getting ready to execute…
Starliner failure: Stranded ISS astronauts reveal the US space programme is not in crisis
Boeing’s Starliner capsule won’t shuttle astronauts home from space this year NASA It’s official: Butch Wilmore…
JWST found rogue worlds that blur the line between stars and planets
Stellar cluster NGC 1333 is home to a large number of brown dwarfs NASA/CXC/JPL-Caltech/NOAO/DSS Astronomers have…