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Astronomy, cosmology, stars, planets, black holes and the observatories revealing how the cosmos works.
The James Webb Space Telescope spent nearly eight hours staring into NGC 4696, a galaxy…
The sun's most violent space weather doesn't taper off gradually at the end of each…
In July 1962, a NASA engineer transcribing the Mariner 1 guidance code missed a single…
Titan's gravity is so weak and its atmosphere so dense that human-powered flight…
Most people think the Sun is a vast ball of burning gas, but that familiar picture is…
Proxima Centauri is the nearest star beyond the Sun, yet this red dwarf is normally…
A radio structure thought for 40 years to tower over the Milky Way’s centre is actually…
In March 1982, the Soviet Venera 13 lander survived 127 minutes on the surface of Venus…
In July 1969, Michael Collins orbited alone on the far side of the Moon while Armstrong…
We assume life needs a sun, but a team at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich…
