Clara Sousa-Silva spent most of 2020 sitting on a huge secret – the apparent detection of…
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2020 in review: Earth acquired a minimoon the size of a 6-year-old
An object spotted near Earth in January has since been confirmed as a temporary moon around…
Searching for stardust: How to find micrometeorites in your gutters
Space dust is constantly falling to Earth, sprinkling rooftops with beautiful particles unchanged since the birth…
Jupiter Saturn conjunction: How to see the 'Christmas star' of 2020
Get ready for 21 December 2020, when the “great conjunction” of Jupiter and Saturn brings them…
We may have seen a huge explosion in the oldest galaxy in the universe
An explosion of high-energy radiation may have been spotted coming from a galaxy in the distant…
SpaceX's Starship spacecraft made its highest flight yet then exploded
The latest prototype of Starship, the spacecraft that SpaceX plans to use to bring astronauts to…
China launched two satellites to find sources of gravitational waves
A pair of satellites launched from China carry detectors for gamma rays and charged particles, which…
The Milky Way's black hole burped out two colossal X-ray bubbles
Astronomers have found a pair of enormous bubbles of X-rays, above and below the Milky Way,…
The Hayabusa 2 spacecraft is about to deliver asteroid rocks to Earth
The Japanese Hayabusa 2 spacecraft will drop off samples of dust and rocks from the asteroid…
China's Chang'e 5 is bringing back the first moon rocks in 44 years
The Chinese Chang’e 5 mission has spent two days digging on the moon and is now…