Increasing numbers of space launches will put more black carbon high in the atmosphere, where it…
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Moon rocks collected by the Chang’e 5 mission have water in them
China’s Chang’e 5 mission landed on the moon in 2020 and sent back samples of dust…
UK may go it alone in orbit after Brexit shutout from EU space plans
The UK may invest in its own space plans if Brexit-related issues continue to prevent full…
Gaia telescope’s new map of the Milky Way will let us rewind time
The European Space Agency has released a new tranche of data from its Gaia space observatory,…
Mysterious cold blobs may be hiding inside a distant star
A small star called AU Microscopii seems to contain strange pockets of hydrogen thousand of degrees…
James Webb Space Telescope was hit by a tiny space rock – but it’s OK
One of the mirrors of NASA’s huge new space observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope, was…
Cosmic dawn ended 200 million years later than cosmologists thought
Using the light from 67 extremely distant quasars astronomers have calculated that cosmic dawn, the period…
NASA's CAPSTONE spacecraft will plot course for a lunar space station
As part of its Artemis programme to return humans to the moon, NASA is launching a…
How lessons learned from space exploration could feed the world
Sustainable food systems developed for deep space could help mitigate the food crisis, says Angelo Vermeulen …
The rise of SpinLaunch, the company planning to hurl things into space
In the desert of New Mexico, a centrifuge taller than the Statue of Liberty is being…