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We all recognise Jupiter by its banded pattern of counter-rotating zones and belts – this can be seen even with small garden telescopes. These stunning structures are powered by fast…
Heads up, Spain and Portugal. And France. Maybe you too, Greece. China’s 9.5 ton (8.6 tonne) space station, Tiangong-1, will come falling from space soon, and it’s predicted to head…
The Juno probe has been delivering some epic science since it launched in 2011, and this time it’s delivered a glimpse into Jupiter’s mysterious depths – and its weird gravitational…
Here’s another one for the ‘black holes are weird’ file: a team of mathematicians has calculated that some black holes in an expanding Universe like ours can press the reset…
In a few months, astronomers are going to be pointing their telescopes to Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy. That’s because it’s going to…
Look up tonight, and you’ll see a rare sight: a ‘Worm Moon’. It’s happening only twice this year. There’ll be one today at 7:51pm ET and one on March 31…
The usual explanation for the origin of the Moon describes it as the result of a collision between Earth and something else that spun material into space. But a new…
The Big Bang may have been bright and dramatic, but immediately after it occurred the Universe got extremely dark for a long time. In fact, scientists believe that it took…
Life as we know it needs three things: energy, water and chemistry. Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus has them all, as NASA spacecraft Cassini confirmed in the final years of its…
Our closest stellar neighbour, Proxima Centauri, knows how to belch ’em out. According to new research, in March of last year it erupted into an absolute beast of a stellar…
Along the western coast of South America there’s a vast desert so unimaginably parched it’s effectively hell on Earth – but it’s the similarities to another red destination that have…
When you’re trying to figure out what alien life might look like, it makes sense to be looking in the most extreme environments Earth has available. One such place where…
SpaceX turned heads around the world on February 6 with the first-ever launch of Falcon Heavy. The 230-foot-tall (70 metres tall) rocket’s three boosters helped push Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster…
Recently, scientists discovered that there is an enormous quantity of water on the Moon, hiding beneath the surface. Since these initial findings, researchers with the Space Science Institute in Boulder,…
SpaceX, the rocket company founded by Elon Musk, launched a Spanish radar satellite atop one of its go-to rockets on Thursday morning. The satellite, called Paz, will keep an eye…
Anybody who has ever hung a picture knows it’s a challenge to figure out if something is level. Yet it might be concerning to hear NASA is having the same…
Since its founding in 1999, Bigelow Aerospace has focused on building inflatable space modules that provide habitats in low-Earth orbit with more breathing room. Now, the Las Vegas-based space company…
Astronomers have come up with the most precise measurement of the Universe’s expansion rate so far – and sure enough, it still appears to be accelerating. The increasing speed shouldn’t…
Astronomers have come up with the most precise measurement of the Universe’s expansion rate so far – and sure enough, it still appears to be accelerating. The increasing speed shouldn’t…
SpaceX, the rocket company founded by the tech mogul Elon Musk, plans to launch a Spanish radar satellite atop one of its go-to rockets on Thursday morning. If all goes…
Even with all the photos that have been taken of space, there are still new things to be seen. And you don’t always need to be a scientist to find…
Every year, the Department of National Intelligence (DNI) releases its Worldwide Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community. This annual report contains the intelligence community’s assessment of potential threats to…
In recent weeks we’ve heard how the Trump administration’s proposed NASA budget might affect the future of the agency’s projects. The International Space Station could be eyeing its last seven…
A study on dozens of galaxies within several billion light years of our own has revealed black holes that far exceed our expectations on just how big these monsters can…
Get a good look at Jupiter’s Great Red Spot while you can. The giant storm as we know it today is shrinking, and it might fade into memory within your…
It’s been a conflicting few months on this blue orb of ours, but nothing puts life into perspective like a photo taken by a probe literally millions of miles from…