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Thanks to the success of the Kepler mission, we know that there are multitudes of exoplanets of a type called ‘Hot Jupiters’. These are gas giants that orbit so close…
Astronomers have finally classified a tremendous space explosion first noticed in 2018 – an event so bright, it was thought to have originated much closer to us than we eventually…
The Universe is so unimaginably big, and it’s positively teeming with an almost infinite supply of potentially life-giving worlds. So where the heck is everybody? At its heart, this is…
June’s full moon – also known as the “strawberry moon” because it comes during strawberry season – might look a little darker than normal on Friday. That’s because many parts…
There’s an unusual paradox hampering research into parts of the Milky Way. Dense gas blocks observations of the galactic core, and it can be difficult to observe in visible light…
Riding atop a pillar of flames, fumes, and dust, two NASA astronauts – Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley – ascended to space on Saturday with the help of a Falcon…
Earlier this year, a comet that wandered into the Solar System from a distant star appeared to have met its demise when it started to break apart. But appearances can…
Eclipse season resumes on June 5th, with a fine penumbral lunar eclipse. Are you cursing the June Full Moon as it thwarts your dreams of deep-sky imaging this week? Fear…
Neutron stars are rising to the top of the list of the most delicious objects in the Universe. First, it was dense “nuclear pasta” beneath their crusts. Now, we have…
In these days of social distancing, it appears this beautiful little galaxy is leading by example, sitting all by itself in the middle of a cosmic void. KK 246, also…
Mars – glorious, dusty, complex Mars – may once have been even more dazzling. New research provides even more evidence that a rubbly ring once circled the Red Planet. The…
The Chandra X-Ray Observatory has spotted a distant black hole shooting out jets of material, at close to the speed of light. No worries, this beast is about 10,000 light…
The Universe is not a structureless mish-mash of space stuff, but there’s still a lot we don’t know about how it’s put together. Although we know that everything is connected…
Unlike Earth, Mars doesn’t have a global magnetic field to protect it from the rigours of space weather – but it does have spots of local, induced magnetism. Now, researchers…
Strange, powerful signals from deep space called fast radio bursts are slippery little suckers. Most of them just flash once, a mysterious huge spike in the radio data out of…
The Sun has been pretty quiet lately. Over the last few years, its flare activity has been relatively weak and infrequent… but it may be about to kick up again.…
Earlier this month, astronomers announced the discovery of something incredible – a brand new type of asteroid… with a tail. But in an update, the researchers have announced their original…
NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley have once again helped make history for SpaceX, the rocket company founded by Elon Musk, by docking to a football field-size laboratory above…