An arc of galaxies stretching for 3.3 billion light years seems to contradict a core tenet…
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Jeff Bezos will be on board Blue Origin's first crewed space flight
Jeff Bezos, the billionaire founder of Blue Origin, will fly to the edge of space on…
Partial solar eclipse will be visible in the UK and Ireland on 10 June
Skygazers in parts of Europe, Asia and North America can observe part of the sun being…
NASA is about to visit Ganymede for the first time in two decades
NASA took pictures of Jupiter’s largest moon Ganymede with its Galileo and Voyager missions, and now…
NASA mission takes first close-up images of Ganymede in two decades
NASA took pictures of Jupiter’s largest moon Ganymede with its Galileo and Voyager missions, and now…
Cosmic smash-ups may push huge black holes away from their homes
Astronomers have found 9 supermassive black holes that may have been hurled out of their homes…
NASA is sending two missions to Venus for the first time in decades
NASA has selected two missions to Venus, called DAVINCI+ and VERITAS, to launch between 2028 and…
Andrea Ghez interview: How I proved supermassive black holes are real
Twenty years ago, Andrea Ghez set out to show there is a black hole at the…
Frank Kameny: Google doodle honours astronomer and gay rights activist
When he was unjustly fired from his job as an astronomer in 1957, Frank Kameny took…
Why there are still huge mysteries in supernova physics
The explosions of supernovae are so powerful they can be seen with the naked eye. The…