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Just when you thought the race to reusable rockets was all wrapped up, a new competitor emerges from the shadows. Honda R&D Co (a subsidiary of Honda Motor Co) successfully

Comet C/2014 UN271 is one of the largest Oort Cloud comets ever observed, measuring 140 km across. It’s currently at a distance of 16.5 AU from the Sun, which makes

The Earth’s magnetosphere is a giant magnetic field that arises from the flow of material deep inside the planet. Because the flow of material isn’t constant, the strength and shape

The early Universe was a busy place some 13 billion years ago. That’s when countless young galaxies began to evolve and birthed stars at a prodigious rate. The hearts of

More than one third of the regular matter in the Universe is missing (we’re not talking about dark matter, just regular matter). It’s needed to make the current cosmological models

Solar eclipses are beautiful, but they’re a valuable chance to study the Sun’s atmosphere as its surface is blocked by the Moon. Now, ESA can generate artificial solar eclipses from

Scientists are using a new approach to find the mysterious – if it exists – Planet Nine by hunting for its heat signature instead of reflected light. Using data from

Stephen Hawking has made a compelling case that black holes eventually evaporate, but the time scales are beyond our ability to detect it. A new paper suggests that primordial black

The Chinese Space Agency took a major step toward its 2030 lunar mission goals this week by successfully testing the escape system of its next-generation Mengzhou spacecraft. At the Jiuquan

You’re probably aware that most of the matter of the Universe is “dark matter,” and astronomers still don’t know what it is. But 75% of the regular matter in the