An artist’s impression of the Kuiper belt ESO/M. Kornmesser The Kuiper belt, a disc of icy…
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Mystery deepens as isolated galaxy forms stars with no obvious fuel
A galaxy called NGC 6789, as seen by the Two-meter Twin Telescope Ignacio Trujillo et al…
Huge cloud of plasma belched out by star 130 light years away
Artist’s impression of a coronal mass ejection on a star Olena Shmahalo/Callingham et al. A cloud…
Is a deadly asteroid about to hit Earth? Meet the man who can tell you
Ryan Wills; Barry Hetherington; ESA; NASA; AdobeStock Richard Binzel has been watching the skies for hazardous…
Huge cloud of plasma belched out by star 40 light years away
Artist’s impression of a coronal mass ejection on a star Olena Shmahalo/Callingham et al. A cloud…
Odds of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the moon may rise to 30 per cent
Asteroid 2024 YR4 may hit the moon MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Astronomers are running out of…
Here’s how to spot the Leonid meteor shower this month
“This year, the Leonid meteor shower is timed almost perfectly with a new moon…” WALTER PACHOLKA,…
Caves carved by water on Mars may hold signs of past life
Channels, pits and caves in the Hebrus Valles on Mars may have been carved by ancient…
Enceladus’s ocean may be even better for life than we realised
Plumes of ice particles, water vapour and organic molecules spray from Enceladus’s south polar region NASA/JPL-Caltech…
A distant galaxy is being strangled by the cosmic web
Simulation of the large scale structure of a galaxy cluster Illustris Collaboration/ESO The cosmic web is…