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The discovery of 62 ‘irregular’ moons orbiting Saturn brings the planet’s total to 145 — and hints at a chaotic past. Jupiter’s brief but glorious reign as the planet with the most moons in our solar system came crashing down this week as scientists confirmed the discovery of 62 new …

NASA’s extraterrestrial helicopter, Ingenuity, flew 40 feet into the Martian air and snapped an astonishing landscape of another world. On its 51st flight, the experimental craft — with rotors reaching four feet long from tip to tip — rose atop a hill just beyond the rim of the Belva crater. …

The Starship is the most powerful rocket ever built and is designed to send astronauts to the Moon, Mars, or beyond. SpaceX’s massive Starship has launched but failed to make orbit. The stainless steel space vessel – composed of a spacecraft sitting atop the so-called Super Heavy booster rocket – …

The James Webb Space Telescope’s zoomed-in image of the planet Uranus was captured in a short, 12-minute exposure on Feb. 6, 2023 NASA released a stunning image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope of the planet Uranus, showing the ice giant’s bright features in the planet’s atmosphere and 11 …

Astronomers from Durham University, in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, have discovered one of the biggest black holes ever found — over 30 billion times the mass of the Sun — by taking advantage of a phenomenon called gravitational lensing. This is the first black hole ever …

The US-led military bloc will use commercial satellites to improve intelligence gathering NATO has announced a new space project that aims to create a fleet of spy satellites. The initiative, which includes NATO applicants Sweden and Finland, involves not only national but commercial assets. The project, which is called ‘Alliance …

The European Space Agency on Wednesday named the first ever “parastronaut” in a major step towards allowing people with physical disabilities to work and live in space. The 22-nation agency said it had selected former British Paralympic sprinter John McFall as part of a new generation of 17 recruits picked …

The uncrewed mission around the moon will pave the way for a crewed flight test and future human lunar exploration. Nasa’s Artemis moon mission has successfully lifted off Earth, heralding a new era for lunar exploration which will eventually see humans return to the moon. After a series of failed …

The ‘potentially hazardous’ celestial body will miss our planet by around 2 million kilometers, the US space agency says An asteroid the size of a large skyscraper is zipping past Earth around Halloween at a relatively close distance of just over 2 million kilometers, according to NASA estimates. The celestial …

A team of researchers led by astronomers in the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Physics & Astronomy has found a previously overlooked treasure trove of massive black holes in dwarf galaxies.

The breakthrough experiment sees seeds germinate in lunar samples collected during NASA’s Apollo missions decades ago.

Scientists on Thursday provided the first look at what they called the “gentle giant” lurking at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, unveiling an image of a supermassive black hole that devours any matter wandering within its gargantuan gravitational pull. The black hole – called Sagittarius A*, or Sgr …

Beijing plans to ‘track and attack’ an asteroid to change its orbit as early as 2025, a high-ranking official has said. China seeks to build a system capable of effectively monitoring asteroids and potentially altering their course to protect Earth from a possible impact. The deputy head of China’s National …

Three Chinese astronauts returned to earth on Saturday after 183 days in space, state television reported, completing the country’s longest crewed space mission to date. The astronauts landed nine hours after they left a key module of China’s first space station. While in orbit, the Shenzhou-13 mission astronauts took manual …

The U.S. Space Command announced this week that it determined a 2014 meteor hit that hit Earth was from outside the solar system. The meteor streaked across the sky off the coast of Manus Island, Papua New Guinea three years earlier than what was believed to be the first confirmed …

Saturn, Mars, Venus and Jupiter are set to line up neatly in the pre-dawn sky later this month in a rare celestial spectacle, astronomers say. Starting April 17, the four planets will appear diagonally, with Jupiter nearest the horizon and Saturn the highest. In the northern hemisphere, they’ll be most …

Shining only ~300 million years after the Big Bang, it may be home to the oldest stars in the universe. An international team of astronomers has recently spotted the most distant galaxy ever, located about 13.5 billion light-years away. Astronomers named this galaxy HD1, which is exceptionally bright in ultraviolet …

70 wandering ‘rogue’ planets the size of Jupiter in the Milky Way are the largest group ever discovered Astronomers have found dozens of ‘rogue’ exoplanets roaming the Milky Way without a parent star to hold them in orbit. At least 70 such cosmic nomads have been confirmed, but the number …

A brand-new space telescope will soon reveal a hidden vision of the cosmos, potentially transforming our understanding of black holes, supernovas and even the nature of the universe itself. No, not that one. Much attention is being devoted this month to the James Webb Space Telescope, from NASA and the …

NASA early Tuesday postponed a spacewalk outside the International Space Station by two of its astronauts after receiving a “debris notification” for the orbital outpost. Astronauts Thomas Marshburn and Kayla Barron had been due to head outside the space laboratory later Tuesday on a six-and-a-half-hour spacewalk to replace a faulty …