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A 14year study of Hong Kong’s Earth Hour participation has revealed that it’s not the millions of apartment windows or office buildings that steal our night sky, but rather a

When Einstein’s predicted ripples in spacetime pass through magnetic fields, they cause the current carrying wires to dance at the gravitational wave frequency, creating potentially detectable electrical signals. Researchers have

There are tens of thousands of pieces of space debris hurling around the Earth right now. Since it can cost tens of millions of dollars to remove just a single

Portrait of a galaxy cluster

Hidden in the darkness between Uranus and Neptune, a team of astronomers have discovered a small world locked in a million year gravitational waltz with Uranus. The asteroid enjoying this

Armed with a drone and a device which is a cross between a scoop and a spatula, a graduate student is cracking the code of Mars by studying California’s desert

It’s assumed that our region of the Universe isn’t special, and the Hubble Tension, or mismatch of expansion rates of the Universe at different times, is happening everywhere. But what

Stars don’t form out of nothing, but tracking the gas and dust that do eventually form stars is hard. They float around the galaxy at almost absolute zero, emitting essentially

A 2.35 billion year old rock that fell from the sky in Africa is rewriting our understanding of the Moon’s past. This ancient meteorite, blasted off the lunar surface has

Why wait for rare solar eclipses? ESA’s Proba mission can now create an artificial solar eclipse once a day. Now, a UK-led mission could do the same trick, but using