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Google (and Apollo 11’s Michael Collins) celebrate Moon landing’s 50th with epic Google doodle
You’ve never seen Apollo 11 quite like this
Space Exploration
China eyes robotic outpost at the Moon’s south pole in late 2020s
The prototype research station will likely be built at the south pole
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Post Office releases commemorative Apollo 11 Moon landing stamps
The Isle of Man Post Office has issued a set of eight stamps to commemorate the Apollo space program and the 50th Anniversary of the first manned flight to land on the lunar surface
Solar System
Astronomers explore the ring-like structures surrounding Titan’s lakes
The analysis comes from the Cassini-Huygens mission that completed multiple flybys of the moon and even dropped a lander on the surface
Solar System
What would happen if the Sun disappeared?
Life without our Solar System’s only star would be rather uncomfortable, to say the least
Space Exploration
NASA and ESA team up once again to create the third European Service Module
This third module will provide astronauts with air, water, electricity and more for when they reach the lunar surface in 2024
Space Exploration
SpaceX to let its ‘Starhopper’ Starship prototype off its leash soon
Starhopper is expected to get about 65 feet off the ground
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Astronomy
Antarctic ‘ghost particle’ hunter to get a £18.5-million upgrade
IceCube has helped unravel one of the oldest riddles in physics and astronomy – the origin of high-energy neutrinos and cosmic rays
Deep Space
The Hubble constant has changed, once again
This new measurement is based upon measuring the distance to red giant stars in different galaxies
Space Exploration
WATCH IN REAL-TIME: The launch of Apollo 11
Fifty years ago, we landed on the Moon – now you can relive NASA’s historic mission as it happened
Space Exploration
“Apollo 11′s manned lunar landing was almost cancelled,” says Aldrin
The second man on the Moon reveals how Apollo 12, not Apollo 11, could have been the first manned lunar landing
Solar System
Make Mars habitable again
Terraforming Mars is an idea that scientists have been actively researching, and maybe silica aerogel could be the answer
Deep Space
Astronomers explore the hypothetical world of exomoon expulsion
Moons ejected from orbits around gas giant exoplanets could explain several astronomical mysteries, an international team of astronomers suggests
Deep Space
Hubble spots a strange thin disc at the core of a nearby galaxy
The disc orbits a black hole 250 times the mass of our Sun and it speeds material up to unimaginable speeds
Deep Space
Astronomers watch on as two black hole behemoths get ready for a collision
The titanic duo can help astronomers predict when the historic first detection of the background ‘hum’ of gravitational waves from supermassive black holes will be made
Deep Space
Cold hydrogen could have stopped Milky Way’s star formation
For the first time ionised hydrogen has been detected at the lowest frequency ever towards the centre of our galaxy
Deep Space
Solved! How the universe’s biggest stars become massive
Astronomers have obtained the first detailed face-on view of a gaseous disc feeding the growth of a massive baby star
Deep Space
Astronomers uncover new way to measure space’s expansion
Using National Science Foundation (NSF) radio telescopes, we may now have resolved an outstanding question about the cosmos
Solar System
Vesta was the victim of a ‘cosmic hit-and-run’
Astronomers have deduced from a meteorite that the second largest asteroid in the Asteroid Belt was part of a tremendous collision
Deep Space
What would happen if a planet crashed into a neutron star?
We take a look at the answer to this intriguing question