Hera, with CubeSats, will soon be heading to the Dimorphos asteroid ESA/Science Office The European Space…
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Europa Clipper will launch to Jupiter in 2024 to explore its icy moon
NASA/JPL-Caltech/Gregory M. Waigand NASA’s Europa Clipper mission is due to launch in October 2024 and head…
Get ready to see a total solar eclipse in 2024 – here’s how
A bride and groom and their wedding guests watching a solar eclipse in Mexico Martin Zetina/AP/Alamy…
Radio bursts from space are exhibiting a strange ‘sad trombone’ effect
The Allen Telescope Array Seth Shostak/SETI Institute Short, powerful bursts of radio waves from space are…
Japan is sending a rover to Mars's moon Phobos in 2024
The Martian Moons eXploration mission is slated to launch for Phobos in September 2024 – once…
India made history with 2023's low-budget Chandrayaan-3 moon landing
With the success of the Chandrayaan-3 mission in August, India became the fourth country to land…
Six of the most amazing space pictures from 2023
Right: Wolf-Rayet star WR 124 as glimpsed by JWST NASA, ESA, CSA, STSCI and ERO Production…
Cosmic Strings: Have we found filaments of pure energy unleashed during the big bang?
HOW long is a piece of string? In this case, as long as the entire universe…
Strange alien worlds suggest Earth could survive the death of the sun
MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY IT ALL seemed so simple when we knew the date of Earth’s…
NASA sends cat video 31 million kilometres through space
A video of Taters the cat chasing a laser light has been beamed back from space…