Artist’s impression of the Resilience lunar lander ispace A private spacecraft will attempt to land on…
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Trillion dollars’ worth of platinum waiting to be mined on the moon
Lunar craters could be a rich source of platinum NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio Craters on the…
Amazing images reveal new details in the sun’s atmosphere
Astronomers have revealed new processes taking place in our sun’s atmosphere, thanks to exquisite new images…
Will SpaceX’s Starship rocket ever work – and what if it doesn’t?
Starship’s ninth test flight took place on 27 May Joe Marino/UPI/Shutterstock Another launch, another failure? With…
Was Planet Nine exiled from the solar system as a baby?
An artist’s illustration of a potential Planet Nine Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library/Alamy If the solar system…
The sun is killing off SpaceX’s Starlink satellites
An artist’s impression of a Starlink satellite in orbit La Nacion/ZUMA Press/Alamy Eruptions from the sun…
Physicists are waging a cosmic battle over the nature of dark energy
The Kitt Peak National Observatory, near Tucson, Arizona, is home to DESI KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Marenfeld Is dark…
New dwarf planet spotted at the edge of the solar system
The orbits of a potential dwarf planet called 2017 OF201 and the dwarf planet Sedna Tony…
Weird planet is orbiting backwards between two stars
We have confirmation that a strange plant is orbiting between two stars Aaron Alien/Shutterstock After years…
Tianwen-2: China is readying a mission to two rocky bodies in our solar system
An artist’s impression of Earth’s quasi-satellite Kamo`oalewa, the first destination of the Tianwen-2 mission Addy Graham/University…