Throughout history, when pioneers set out across uncharted territory to settle in distant lands, they carried with them only the…
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US astronauts Suni Williams and Barry Wilmore have been stranded in low earth orbit onboard the International Space Station for…
Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised discoveries from a team of astronomers…
In the past three years, astronomers have discovered a mysterious new type of radio source. We call these long period…
For a few days in mid-February, headlines around the world buzzed about the potential for an asteroid to hit the…
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…
NASA will soon launch a new telescope which it says will create the “most colourful” map of the cosmos ever made. The…
We often forget how wonderful it is that life exists, and what a special and unique phenomenon it is. As…