The Green Bank telescope in West Virginia, part of the NANOGrav collaboration NANOGrav The following is…
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Solar wind that blasts from sun may be driven by tiny plasma flares
Small-scale structures of solar wind emerging from a coronal hole on the sun ESA & NASA/Solar…
India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission starts exploring the moon’s south pole
Chandrayaan-3’s Pragyan rover going down a ramp from the lander to reach the surface of the…
JWST may have seen black holes suppressing the creation of new stars
Illustration of a supermassive black hole Stuart Thomson/Alamy Supermassive black holes seem to stop stars forming…
Massive crater found on distant world far beyond Neptune
An artist’s impression of 2002 MS4, made before the new measurements of its shape Courtesy Superpartes/Space…
India’s Chandrayaan-3 moon rover swerves to avoid crater
A 4-metre-wide crater caused a course correction ISRO India’s moon rover has successfully steered around a…
Michele Dougherty interview: How JUICE will look for habitability on Jupiter’s moons
The European Space Agency’s JUICE probe launched in April this year ESA/Stephane Corvaja DECADES-LONG space missions…
Fluffy exoplanet blasted by its sun has clouds that rain sand
Artist’s impression of fluffy planet WASP-107b and its parent star LUCA School of Arts, Belgium/ Klaas…
Fluffy exoplanet blasted by its sun has clouds that rain sand
The James Webb Space Telescope has let us peer into the atmosphere of gas giant planet…
Is an enormous shield the worst way to protect Earth from asteroids?
Protecting Earth from any huge asteroid that might come our way is complicated. If you break…