All stars, including the Sun, have a finite lifetime. Stars shine by the process of nuclear fusion in which lighter…
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If an alien were to look at Earth, many human technologies – from cell towers to fluorescent light bulbs –…
The study of exoplanets, worlds which orbit stars other than our sun, is currently being transformed by the new James Webb…
Humans experience all manner of things every day without noticing it. You walk through massive magnetic fields. You are bombarded…
Virgin Orbit, a US company which provides launch services for satellites, has announced that the first orbital space mission from…
A new dawn of space exploration is upon us. NASA aims to land the first woman and person of colour on the…
In July, a puzzling new image of a distant extreme star system surrounded by surreal concentric geometric rungs had even…
On September 26, after a nine-month journey through the Solar System, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission impacted an asteroid called…
Looking up at the moon in the night sky, you would never imagine that it is slowly moving away from…
Russia’s Sputnik kicked off the space age in 1957. But Africa didn’t join until 1999. Why? Sputnik happened partly due to…