Io, Jupiter’s innermost moon, is the most volcanically active body in the solar system Joshimer Binas/Alamy…
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Lyrid meteor shower 2024: How to see the Lyrids this April and when do they peak?
Shutterstock/Ingo Bartussek One of the meteor showers I look forward to every year is the Lyrids,…
How to destroy a black hole
Dead Planets Society is back for season two, and our intrepid hosts Chelsea Whyte and Leah…
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We live in a cosmic void so empty that it breaks the laws of cosmology
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Planets that look alike might be a sign of spacefaring aliens
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Hubble tension: One of the biggest mysteries of cosmology may finally be solved
The further galaxies are from Earth, the faster they are moving away from us ESA/Hubble &…
The multiverse could be much, much bigger than we ever imagined
The many-more-worlds interpretation enlarges the multiverse Shutterstock/vchal The multiverse could be infinitely bigger than we ever…
Eclipse 2024: 5 of the best pictures of the total solar eclipse
The total solar eclipse that passed across North America on 8 April drew millions out to…
When is the next total solar eclipse visible from the UK?
Total eclipses are only visible from a narrow strip of land Pitris/iStockphoto/Getty Images The total solar…