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Almost all moon landers break down during the extraordinary cold of lunar night, but Japan’s Smart Lander for Investigating Moon has astonishingly survived three nights ..read more
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It can be difficult to figure out how to move a spacecraft from one orbit to another, but a trick from knot theory can help find spots where shifting orbits becomes easy ..read more
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1w ago
Measurements of sulphur isotopes in Io’s atmosphere show that the moon may have been volcanically active for its entire lifetime ..read more
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1w ago
Caused by debris from a comet thought to originate in the Oort Cloud, the Lyrid meteor shower peaks this year on 22 April and is best viewed from the northern hemisphere, says Abigail Beall ..read more
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1w ago
A black hole 33 times the mass of the sun is the largest stellar black hole ever spotted, and its strange companion star could help explain how it got so huge ..read more
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1w ago
Mounting evidence suggests our galaxy sits at the centre of an expanse of nothingness 2 billion light years wide. If so, we may have to rethink our understanding of the universe ..read more
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2w ago
We don’t know what alien life might look like, but if other civilisations can colonise multiple worlds, we might see planets that look unusually similar ..read more
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2w ago
A new way of interpreting the elusive mathematics of quantum mechanics could fundamentally change our understanding of reality ..read more
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2w ago
On 8 April, a total solar eclipse passed over Mexico, the US and Canada – here are some of the most stunning images ..read more
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2w ago
The next time a total solar eclipse will be visible from the UK is decades away, but there are other places nearby that will experience one sooner ..read more