In 2024, space exploration dazzled the world. NASA’s Europa Clipper began its journey to study Jupiter’s moon Europa. SpaceX’s Starship achieved its first successful…
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A team led by researchers at MIT in the United States has discovered large molecules containing carbon in a distant…
When you wish upon a star, Jiminy Cricket told us, your dreams come true. But according to an idea doing the rounds on…
On September 4 2024, astronomers discovered an asteroid, one metre in diameter, heading towards Earth. The space rock would burn…
Have you ever wanted to make a $150,000 gamble? If you’re right, you open a new window to the universe.…
One of the more annoying things about astronomy is the amount of learning involved before taking part. It’s not just…
A supermoon may sound exciting, but it’s a modest coincidence. As the Moon orbits Earth, its distance from us varies from 357,000…
Cutting-edge telescopes, gravitational waves, black holes and our solar system’s central star, the Sun, are just a few of the…
Imagine keeping a laser beam trained on a dime that’s 200 miles away. Now imagine doing that continuously for 24…
When astronomers turn our radio telescopes out towards space, we sometimes detect sporadic bursts of radio waves originating from across…