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Summer rainfall spotted on Saturn’s largest moon

Using the former spacecraft Cassini, scientists have found evidence for rainfall near its north pole

What is “switching on” a supermassive black hole’s feeding frenzy?

These “giant monsters” were observed suddenly devouring gas in their surroundings

Is the Sun pulling the planets closer to it?

Could the planets in our Solar System be getting closer and closer to the Sun?

FutureTech

Future Tech: Pluto hopper

A NASA project is working on a new way to slow down planetary spacecraft to enable an ingenious hopping dwarf planet mission

Astronomy

Heroes of Space: Clyde Tombaugh

The amateur astronomer who discovered Pluto and visited the dwarf planet after his death

Astronomy

Heroes of Space: Charles Messier

The pioneer of the sky created the catalogue of deep sky objects.

Why does Venus look blue in some spacecraft images?

What is it about this terrestrial world’s atmosphere that gives it its unusual colour?

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What colour are comets when they are not near the Sun?

Do comets look as vibrant when they’re not getting a helping hand from the Sun?

The brightest quasar in the early universe has been discovered

This extremely powerful and young galaxy was magnified, like a lens, by a foreground galaxy

Unusual radio signals have been found coming from deep space

Detections of fast radio bursts at low frequencies also provide a new clue to the astrophysical puzzle

Curtains close on the Dark Energy Survey

After six years, the Dark Energy Survey has finished mapping hundreds of millions of distant galaxies in the southern hemisphere

NASA’s TESS spots its first exoplanets and supernovae

From its first data set, astronomers have already discovered new and exciting exoplanets and pivotal distance-measuring supernovae

Tiny satellites could lead the way for huge next-generation telescopes

With the proposal for enormous space telescopes becoming more serious, engineers suggest using tiny satellites as ‘guide stars’ for any future telescope

New Horizons Update: Spacecraft reveals Ultima Thule as entirely new world

The Kuiper Belt Object’s remarkable appearance illuminates the processes that built the planets four and a half billion years ago

What’s the heaviest star cluster?

We find out who’s the heftiest stellar family of them all

Can stars have weather?

We have the answer to this intriguing question

Would astronauts need a lot of shielding to safely travel into deep space?

We have the answer to this intriguing question