The ambitious plans to study the sun during April’s solar eclipse

NASA’s WB-57 research jets will be used to study the eclipse Amir Caspi Across North America,…

Japan’s SLIM moon lander surprisingly survived a second lunar night

View of the moon’s surface taken from the SLIM lander’s tilted position JAXA Most landers we…

Some of the greatest cosmic discoveries have come about by accident

FOR a $10 billion instrument, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) spends a lot of its…

Mars may have captured and split a comet to create its two moons

Mars has two irregularly shaped moons, an inner moon named Phobos and an outer moon named…

Early galaxy seen by JWST contains giant young stars and supernovae

  GLASS-z12, a very early galaxy viewed by the James Webb Space Telescope Naidu et al,…

NASA’s Artemis astronauts will try to grow plants on the moon

An artist’s concept of an Artemis astronaut deploying an instrument on the lunar surface NASA NASA…

New view of our galaxy’s black hole reveals a swirling magnetic field

The black hole Sagittarius A*, viewed in polarised light European Southern Observatory (ESO) This is the…

How to make a pinhole eclipse viewer and a box eclipse viewer

You need some basic equipment to view the eclipse safely Liang Sen / Imago / Alamy…

Europa Clipper: NASA’s mission to moon of Jupiter isn’t meant to find alien life – but it could

An artist’s impression of Europa Clipper near the moon it is named after NASA An instrument…

Astonishing photograph of last year’s annular solar eclipse in Utah

Daniel J Stein and Andrew McCarthy THIS captivating shot, showing the sun and full moon perfectly…