A phenomenon called cosmological time dilation means that events taking place in the early universe seem…
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Stunning JSWT image sees Saturn show off its glowing rings
A strange and unfamiliar view of Saturn has been captured by the James Webb Space Telescope…
Stunning JWST image sees Saturn show off its glowing rings
A strange and unfamiliar view of Saturn has been captured by the James Webb Space Telescope…
IceCube detector finds neutrinos from the Milky Way for the first time
A neutrino detector in Antarctica has found heaps of high-energy neutrinos coming from distant galaxies, but…
Virgin Galactic space flight live: Watch first commercial launch today
Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic is aiming to join a small club of companies capable of ferrying…
Virgin Galactic space plane makes its first commercial flight
Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic has made its first commercial flight to the edge of space, joining…
Our solar system could be hiding an extra planet the size of Uranus
Many planets are thought to be flung away from their stars, but it’s possible that some…
Interstellar meteor fragments may have been found in the Pacific Ocean
An expedition to hunt for fragments of a possible interstellar meteor has found 40 tiny iron…
Euclid space telescope is about to launch to probe the dark cosmos
The European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope is scheduled to launch on 1 July and then…
Distant comet cracks into two halves after being heated by the sun
A fragmentation event has given astronomers a new way to study a comet from the outer…