The Chang’e 6 probe being retrieved in Siziwang Banner in Inner Mongolia, China Xinhua/Shutterstock China’s Chang’e…
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Mercury may have a layer of diamond beneath its grey surface
Does Mercury have a sparkling secret? NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington A…
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot may have disappeared and reformed
Jupiter’s red spot as captured by NASA’s Juno spacecraft NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstad/Sean Doran ? CC NC SA…
Stunning JWST image proves we were right about how young stars form
The Serpens Nebula: aligned jets are visible as a series of red streaks in the top…
Saturn’s moon Titan is experiencing coastal erosion from methane seas
The liquid hydrocarbon seas of Titan may have waves NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/University of Idaho Craggy coastlines…
Is an old NASA probe about to redraw the frontier of the solar system?
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is hurtling out of the solar system at an incredible speed. It…
Pluto and the largest moon of Neptune might be siblings
Triton, left, and Pluto (not shown to scale) may be long-lost siblings JPL/NASA//Johns Hopkins University Applied…
Einstein’s theory was wrong about black holes made out of light
Light cannot condense enough to create a black hole Vadim Sadovski/Shutterstock It seems it is not…
Spellbinding shots capture the Milky Way in all its glory
2024 MILKY WAY PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR/TOM RAE In the right place at the right time,…
JWST spotted an incredible number of supernovae in the early universe
Many of the circled objects represent previously unknown supernovae NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, JADES Collaboration Astronomers…