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