A total solar eclipse is coming to North America on 8 April, offering researchers a rare…
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Laser-powered licence plates could help avoid satellite collisions
It can be difficult to identify satellites that have lost power, increasing the risk of a…
Planet caught in a gravitational ‘tidal storm’ is so hot that it glows
One rocky planet might be so hot it glows ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser A distant world is…
Astronomers have found what may be the smallest galaxy ever
This deep sky image (left) contains a star cluster (right) that could be the faintest and…
See the messages NASA is sending to Jupiter’s icy moon, Europa
Illustration of NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft NASA/JPL-Caltech IN OCTOBER, NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft is due to…
How solar eclipses have been revealing cosmic secrets for centuries
A total solar eclipse is a great opportunity to learn more about the sun ESA/Royal Observatory…
The ambitious plans to study the sun during April’s solar eclipse
NASA’s WB-57 research jets will be used to study the eclipse Amir Caspi Across North America,…
Japan’s SLIM moon lander surprisingly survived a second lunar night
View of the moon’s surface taken from the SLIM lander’s tilted position JAXA Most landers we…
Some of the greatest cosmic discoveries have come about by accident
FOR a $10 billion instrument, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) spends a lot of its…
Mars may have captured and split a comet to create its two moons
Mars has two irregularly shaped moons, an inner moon named Phobos and an outer moon named…