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
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
Is there life on Venus? The controversial detection of phosphine and ammonia hints that bacterial life could be surviving in the planet’s milder upper atmosphere. But to confirm its existence,
If we can learn to grow our own food in space, it’ll make surviving off Earth less challenging. While plants do grow in space, some genetic improvements are in order.