When the first five images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) were unveiled, one of them stared at me…
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At about 10 o’clock on the night of February 28 2021, a fireball streaked through the sky over England. The…
A photograph taken by NASA’s Orion spacecraft has given us a new perspective on our home planet. The snap was…
President Joe Biden is hosting the Second US-Africa Leaders Summit in mid-December 2022. The focus will be on eight areas: economic engagement; peace, security…
Construction of the world’s biggest radio astronomy facility, the SKA Observatory, begins today. The observatory is a global project 30…
Earlier this month, Meta announced new AI software called Galactica: “a large language model that can store, combine and reason about…
Some stars just get unlucky. There are billions of stars within a typical galaxy. Yet once every 100,000 years or…
The European Space Agency made history last week with the announcement of the first “parastronaut”, 41-year-old UK citizen John McFall.…
The night sky is a shared wilderness. On a dark night, away from the city lights, you can see the…
Since the first planet orbiting a star other than the Sun was discovered in 1995, we have realised that planets…