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Solar System
What would happen if all of the gas planets’ atmospheres were stripped away?
It would take something special, but the consequences would change the Solar System as we know it
Astronomy
How often does space rock hit the Earth’s atmosphere?
Space rock could be making its way through the Earth’s atmosphere more than we realise
FutureTech
Future Tech: Swarming the 300
An innovative new Finnish space mission recently presented to the European Planetary Science Congress could enable a massive survey of up to 300 asteroids
Space Exploration
Heroes of Space: James Irwin
The deeply religious astronaut who found inspiration during his time on the Moon
Deep Space
Astronomers spot the signal of two distant neutron stars merging
The merger sent an intense flash of radiation into the cosmos, picked up by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory
Deep Space
TRAPPIST-1 worlds have to endure formidable particles and harsh tidal heating
The three planets in the conventional habitable zone face the threat of harmful particles and gravitational tugging of the other planets
Deep Space
TESS finds its first Earth-like planet 53 light years away
In the same system as this exciting Earth-like exoplanet, a sub-Neptune-sized planet was discovered too
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Deep Space
The first ever direct image of a black hole has been produced
Astronomers have, for the first time, imaged a supermassive black hole, which resides in the heart of a distant galaxy called Messier 87
Q & A
Quiz: How well do you know black holes?
Think you know everything there is about space’s weirdest objects? See how well you score in our quick-fire!
Astronomy
Watch Live: First black hole image? Major discovery to be announced today
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is set to release its first results – tune in wherever you are in the world
Deep Space
Could life already be evolving at our nearest exoplanet neighbour?
The closest exoplanet to Earth, Proxima-b, receives much more harmful radiation from its host star, but it’s possible life to survive this bombardment
Solar System
Jupiter’s aurorae have a deeper influence on the gas giant than originally thought
Aurora on Jupiter can reach two to three times deeper into its atmosphere than the aurora experienced on Earth
Space Exploration
BepiColombo is officially on its way to Mercury
The space probe that will investigate the Solar System’s innermost planet has finally departed the orbit of Earth
Deep Space
The remains of a planet has been spotted around distant dead star
Planetary fragment identified in a disk of debris circling a dead star 400 light years away and is thought to be rich in heavy metals
Astronomy
Introducing the new telescope that will hunt for imperative evidence about dark energy
DESI began operations after receiving its first light at the beginning of April 2019 in an attempt to explain the expansion of the Universe
Deep Space
Radio astronomy has directly revealed a key feature on a powerful distant galaxy
Astronomers have previously theorised that a thick ring of dust, known as a torus, surrounds the supermassive black holes at the centre of huge galaxies
Solar System
Another clue has been found about Mars’ methane mystery
Methane on Mars could be the calling card for microbial life on the Red Planet
Deep Space
Astronomers capture the birth of enormous stars with airborne observatory
The SOFIA observatory took to the skies to photograph the dense cloud of gas lit up by stars forming within
Solar System
Some of Saturn’s moons are glazed with the ice from the planet’s rings
This finding has come from the legendary data left behind by NASA’s historic Cassini spacecraft
Deep Space
Spitzer captures beautiful ‘space butterfly’ spreading its cosmic wings
NASA’s infrared juggernaut has imaged the fluttering of illuminated gas where new stars form