The Perseid meteor shower in 2023 seen from California NASA/Preston Dyches Cosmic dust may have delivered…
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Carbon dioxide gas spotted in atmosphere of Jupiter’s moon Callisto
The surface of Jupiter’s moon Callisto is scarred with impact craters, and its atmosphere holds carbon…
Russia’s space weapon: Is it nuclear and does it pose a threat?
The mysterious new weapon might threaten satellites in Earth’s orbit KeyFame/Shutterstock The US government has privately…
Satellite beamed power from space to Earth for the first time ever
Inside the MAPLE power experiment Alex Ayling et al. The first experiment to transmit power to…
Quadrantids meteor shower 2024: How to spot it on 3 and 4 January
Quadrantid “fireball” in Tres Piedras, New Mexico, in January 2020 Mike Lewinski CC BY 2.0 DEED…
The stargazing events to watch out for in 2024
I HAVE been making notes about the stargazing spectacles I hope to see this year. Many…
A renegade moon may have flipped Venus’s spin
Venus spins in the opposite direction to all of the other planets in the solar system…
Neptune isn’t as blue as we thought it was
The original Voyager 2 photo of Neptune (left) and the reprocessed image from the new study…
‘This century is special’: Astronomer Royal Martin Rees on the vast span of time
Martin Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, British cosmologist and astrophysicist. DAVID LEVENSON/Getty Images IN OUR everyday…
The first Vulcan rocket launch will carry a private lander to the moon
A United Launch Alliance Vulcan rocket is being prepared to launch from Cape Canaveral in Florida…