The InSight lander has observed more than 500 marsquakes so far, and it has used these…
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Perseverance’s first month on Mars has yielded new sights and sounds
NASA’s Perseverance rover has now been on Mars for about a month, and in that time…
Elon Musk's SpaceX may have been one explosion away from going bust
The compelling story of how Elon Musk’s relentless quest to get humans to Mars helped SpaceX…
What is the spring equinox and is it something worth celebrating?
Do the spring and autumn equinoxes give us days and nights of the same length? It…
Satellite that can clean up space junk with a magnet about to launch
A satellite that grabs potentially dangerous space debris with a magnet and drags it to a…
Mars’s crust may have sucked up most of the planet’s water
Mars used to be covered in water, but it dried out billions of years ago. A…
A Japanese spacecraft bombed an asteroid and it barely flinched
When the Hayabusa-2 spacecraft bombed the asteroid Ryugu, boulders near the impact did not move nearly…
Seven alien space rocks should pass through our solar system each year
An estimate of the number of interstellar objects passing through the solar system suggests we should…
Kilometre-high concrete towers on the moon could power a lunar base
The moon’s lower gravity makes it practical to build huge towers covered in solar panels, using…
One of our most basic assumptions about the universe may be wrong
The distribution of matter throughout the universe may not be the same in every direction, which…