NASA has turned sound waves emanating from a black hole at the centre of the Perseus…
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JWST has taken even more beautiful images of Jupiter and its aurora
The James Webb Space Telescope has taken new images of Jupiter, showing off its bright hazes,…
Shards of pure ice might snow upwards beneath the ice shell of Europa
The moons Europa and Enceladus probably have global oceans buried beneath their frozen shells, and those…
The star Betelgeuse has stopped dimming – but it's still acting weird
After a weird event dubbed the Great Dimming in 2019, the plasma that makes up Betelgeuse…
JWST has captured a sparkling galaxy full of intense star formation
The Great Barred Spiral Galaxy has some of the most extraordinary regions of star formation of…
NASA's InSight Mars lander found surprisingly little underground ice
There is plenty of ice and watery minerals underground at the poles of Mars, but NASA’s…
Astronauts could use plasma to make oxygen and fertiliser on Mars
A form of matter called plasma, which contains charged particles, could help break up the Martian…
Faint distant galaxies spotted by JWST may be closer than they appear
Because of a calibration update for one of the James Webb Space Telescope’s main cameras, research…
Physicists work out how many moons Earth could have
Simulations suggest that Earth could theoretically host two more moons the size of the one we’ve…
Interstellar meteorite may be awaiting discovery on the sea floor
A pair of astronomers say that classified US government sensors detected an interstellar meteor hitting Earth…