There’s a new type of asteroid that has a tail like a comet because it’s spinning…
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Surprisingly wet asteroid dust could spark a rethink of Earth's water
Samples of space dust from the Hayabusa mission to the asteroid Itokawa are far less dry…
From the archives: How do you get astronauts back from space?
50 years ago, the Apollo missions were gearing up to put a human on the moon…
The race to build a space internet available to anyone, anywhere
Tech billionaires are building a wireless, orbiting internet accessible in even the deepest jungle. The first…
LIGO may have just spotted a black hole devouring a neutron star
In a cosmic clash of the titans, we may have just spotted a black hole eat…
First exomoon might not actually exist as astronomers reach stalemate
What appeared to be the first moon ever discovered around planet circling another star may not…
Battle of the exomoon: Astronomers can't agree on controversial find
What appeared to be the first moon ever discovered around a planet circling another star may…
Wonky black hole spotted rapidly eating a doughnut made from a star
Black holes normally emit jets of material from their poles, but astronomers have spotted one with…
Titan has a belt of ice 6300 kilometres long that shouldn't be there
The surface of Saturn’s moon Titan is mostly coated in a thick layer of sediment, but…
The moon may be made of magma that once covered Earth’s entire surface
The moon’s makeup is extremely similar to Earth’s – perhaps because a huge rock smashed into…