Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised discoveries from a team of astronomers…
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In the past three years, astronomers have discovered a mysterious new type of radio source. We call these long period…
Radio astronomers see what the naked eye can’t. As we study the sky with telescopes that record radio signals rather…
Today, we know of more than 5,000 exoplanets: planets outside our solar system that orbit other stars. While the effort to…
In the 1970s, images from the NASA Mariner 9 orbiter revealed water-sculpted surfaces on Mars. This settled the once-controversial question…
You may not know it, but right now there’s a huge cosmic rave party happening far, far above our heads.…
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…
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…