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New Scientist – Space
A tiny nearby galaxy is home to a shockingly enormous black hole
It is hard to believe, but Segue 1, a very faint dwarf galaxy, is at the…
The Martian permafrost may be hiding veins of habitable liquid water
NASA’s Phoenix Lander’s solar panel and robotic arm with a sample in the scoop NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of…
See the beauty of space, captured by the astronauts who experienced it
Valeriy Polyakov in Russian space station Mir’s window, taken from the space shuttle Discovery in 1995…
A distant comet is forming new rings while we watch in real time
Illustration of Chiron’s rings Dan Durda For the first time, astronomers are watching a ring system…
The centre of our galaxy may be teeming with dark matter particles
Gamma rays show up in surprisingly high concentrations in the centre of the Milky Way The…
Martian volcanoes may have transported ice to the planet’s equator
Ancient volcanic eruptions on Mars may have deposited ice at the planet’s equator RON MILLER/SCIENCE PHOTO…
A black hole fell into a star – then ate its way out again
This orange dot is a gamma-ray burst that seems to be a sign of an unusual…
Blue Planet Red review: This documentary is wrong about Mars – but it’s surprisingly poignant
This image seems to show a wrench on Mars, but it is just an ordinary rock…
The moon’s largest crater didn’t form in the way we thought
The South Pole-Aitken basin – the mostly blue area in the centre of this topographic map…