ESA’s JUICE mission will help us better understand whether Jupiter’s icy moons are habitable. But we…
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India's Chandrayaan-3 moon rover swerves to avoid crater
The six-wheeled Pragyan rover had to change course to avoid a 4-metre-wide crater on the surface…
Massive crater found on distant world far beyond Neptune
An object in the Kuiper Belt named 2002 MS4 has a depression 45 kilometres deep and…
JWST may have seen black holes suppressing the creation of new stars
The supermassive black holes at the centre of many galaxies were suspected to quench the formation…
India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission starts exploring the moon’s south pole
After the Chandrayaan-3 mission’s historic landing on the moon, the Indian Space Research Organisation’s rover has…
Solar wind that blasts from sun may be driven by tiny plasma flares
The source of the charged plasma that makes up the solar wind has long been debated,…
The gravitational waves that could shed light on the cosmic dark age
Some astrophysicists have said that the discovery of the gravitational wave background could shake the foundations…
India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission has landed near the moon’s south pole
ISRO, India’s national space agency, has successfully made a historic soft landing near the moon’s water-rich…
Chandrayaan-3 livestream: Watch India’s attempted moon landing
ISRO, India’s national space agency, is attempting a historic soft landing of the Chandrayaan-3 mission near…
Russia's Luna 25 moon mission ends in catastrophic crash
It has been almost 50 years since Russia – then the Soviet Union – landed safely…