IN THE past few months, the wheels started to fall off NASA’s Mars Sample Return (MSR)…
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Lucy spacecraft found another asteroid behind the asteroid Dinkinesh
The asteroid Dinkinesh and its smaller orbiting asteroid NASA/Goddard/SwRI/Johns Hopkins APL/NOAO NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has flown…
The sun is smaller than we thought it was
The sun isn’t quite as big as we thought, so may release solar flares differently to…
Euclid space telescope released its first stunning full-colour images
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Euclid space telescope has sent back its first science images, and…
Can we smash together all of the asteroids to build a new planet?
Let’s be honest: the asteroid belt is a bit of a mess. It is full of…
Newfound moon around asteroid Dinkinesh is actually two touching rocks
The asteroid Dinkinesh and its binary contact satellite NASA/Goddard/SwRI/Johns Hopkins APL The asteroid Dinkinesh’s newfound moon…
Lunar occultation of Venus 2023: When to see the planet disappear behind the moon
Venus seen next to and above the crescent moon just before a daytime occultation in 2015…
How Jupiter’s powerful storms compare to weather on hot Jupiters
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Shutterstock / joshimerbin The following is an extract from our monthly Launchpad…
Distant Milky Way-like galaxy is older than we thought possible
Artistic representation of how the Milky Way-like galaxy ceers-2112 would look from Earth Luca Costantin (CAB/CSIC-INTA)…
Why we need to bring stellar astrophysics into the real world
Science Photo Library/Alamy RECENTLY, I was giving a tour of the University of New Hampshire’s department…