Europa has an underground ocean, but it might not be as hospitable for life as Earth’s…
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Starship launch 3: What time is the SpaceX flight and what to expect?
SpaceX’s Starship prepped for flight SpaceX SpaceX is launching its massive Starship rocket for the third…
Sleeping black hole is way more massive than it should be
Black holes can go “dormant” if they aren’t actively feeding Jurik Peter/Shutterstock A black hole in…
Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks: How to see incredible comet tonight
Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks seen on 5 March near Tromsø, Norway Bernt Olsen One of the brightest known…
Mars’s gravitational pull may be strong enough to stir Earth’s oceans
The planets are in a gravitational dance around the sun Shutterstock/Johan Swanepoel The gravitational tug of…
The moons of Mars may have been formed in an icy planetary collision
How did Mars acquire its moons? NASA/JPL-Caltech/Malin Space Science Systems/Texas A&M University The mystery of where…
6 things to look out for during the total solar eclipse
Pink streaks called prominences appear during a total eclipse Alan Dyer/Stocktrek Images/Getty Images There is no…
Bizarre galaxy in the early universe died extremely young
The James Webb Space Telescope can capture detailed images of distant galaxies JADES Collaboration A strange…
Weird floating crystals can stop stars ageing for billions of years
Some massive white dwarf stars seem to stop ageing for billions of years. Now we may…
Australia could launch its first private orbital rocket within weeks
The Eris Block 1 rocket Gilmour Space Technologies Within weeks, the Australian government is expected to…