The SLIM lander is continuing to snap photos of the moon’s surface JAXA Somehow, Japan’s Smart…
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Knot theory could help spacecraft navigate crowded solar systems
Space modules must be able to switch orbits in order to explore a solar system Elen…
Jupiter’s moon Io has been a volcanic inferno for billions of years
Io, Jupiter’s innermost moon, is the most volcanically active body in the solar system Joshimer Binas/Alamy…
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…
A surprisingly enormous black hole has been found in our galaxy
This artist’s impression shows the orbits of both a massive stellar black hole and its companion…
We live in a cosmic void so empty that it breaks the laws of cosmology
ryan wills; Klaus Vedfelt/Getty Images EVER feel like you are stuck in a hole? Newsflash: you…
Planets that look alike might be a sign of spacefaring aliens
Alien civilisations that have terraformed multiple planets may be detectable from afar dotted zebra/Alamy Nearby planets…
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…