The moon may have formed at least 4.46 billion years ago – 40 million years earlier…
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Bright gamma ray burst might mean space is more transparent than we thought
GRB221009A surrounded by dust rings, pictured by the XMM-Newton X-ray space observatory ESA/XMM-Newton/M. Rigoselli (INAF) The…
What would it take to make the most inhospitable planet for life?
There’s only one planet that we know of that hosts life – Earth. So what makes…
Ice-spewing supervolcano may have been found on Pluto
A photo of Pluto taken by NASA’s New Horizons mission NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest…
Lunar eclipse 2023: What time is the October Blood moon partial eclipse?
A partial lunar eclipse in Regensburg, Germany, in 2017 Thomas Koschnick/Alamy Solar and lunar eclipses always…
Strange supernova blasts hint we have glimpsed a black hole’s birth
An illustration of a black hole created after a supernova Christoph Burgstedt/Science Photo Library/Alamy We may…
Mouse embryos have been grown in space for the first time
A microscope image of mouse embryos after they had returned from the International Space Station Teruhiko…
Lunar eclipse 2023: October blood moon captured in stunning images around the world
The partial lunar eclipse on 28 October in Munich, Germany Imago/Alamy Photographers around the world captured…
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is hurtling towards the tiny asteroid Dinkinesh
NASA’s Lucy mission is heading to two swarms of asteroids trapped in Jupiter’s orbit NASA's Goddard…
Walking on the moon: candid photos from astronaut Tim Peake’s new book
20 July 1969. Neil Armstrong’s photos of Buzz Aldrin’s first steps on the Moon. NASA SPACE,…