The “music” of starquakes – enormous vibrations caused by bursting bubbles of gas that ripple throughout the bodies of many…
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On Thursday, 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut down…
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has detected the largest organic (carbon-containing) molecules ever found on the red planet. The discovery is one…
Barnard’s Star is a small, dim star, of the type that astronomers call red dwarfs. Consequently, even though it is one…
Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, the NASA astronauts who were stuck on the International Space Station (ISS) for nine months, have…
Throughout history, when pioneers set out across uncharted territory to settle in distant lands, they carried with them only the…
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…