NASA’s Artemis moon exploration programme is getting a major makeover
NASA’s Space Launch System has had a tricky startNASA/Cory Huston NASA is…
How to see six planets in the sky at once in rare celestial alignment
Every few years, the planets appear in a lineGetty Images Nearly all…
Is our galaxy’s black hole actually made of dark matter?
An image of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* in polarised light,…
NASA is performing an unprecedented medical evacuation from the ISS
The four crew members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission to the International…
Strange lemon-shaped exoplanet defies the rules of planet formation
An artist’s impression of PSR J2322-2650bNASA, ESA, CSA, Ralf Crawford (STScI) Astronomers…
Astronomers may have glimpsed evidence of the biggest stars ever seen
Artist’s impression of a field of Population III stars 100 million years…
James Watson, co-discoverer of DNA’s double helix, has died aged 97
Molecular biologist James Watson helped reveal DNA’s hidden shapeEverett Collection Historical /…
Enceladus’s ocean may be even better for life than we realised
Plumes of ice particles, water vapour and organic molecules spray from Enceladus’s…
We may have found a surprisingly nearby cluster of primordial stars
Artist’s impression of Population III stars as they would have appeared a…
A distant comet is forming new rings while we watch in real time
Illustration of Chiron’s ringsDan Durda For the first time, astronomers are watching…
