An astronomer needs the right tools, and this telescope is the perfect partner
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Space Exploration
Heroes of Space: The Mercury 13 crew
In a time of gender prejudice, these women were denied the chance to fly into space, despite their obvious and remarkable capabilities
Space Exploration
Watch LIVE: The first all-female spacewalk
NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir will soon make history with the first all-female spacewalk, approximately commencing at 11:50 GMT (6:50 ET) on 18 October 2019
Solar System
NASA spots InSight Mars lander and Curiosity rover from space (photos)
The new photo is the best-ever look at the InSight lander on the surface of Mars
Space Exploration
Why aren’t the stars visible in pictures of astronauts on spacewalks?
We answer the question of why the stars are hidden in pictures taken from space
Space Exploration
NASA’s first SLS megarocket launch to the Moon could be delayed to 2021
The Space Launch System megarocket will eventually take humans back to the Moon in 2024
Space Exploration
Space junk menace: New guidelines urged to help fight orbital debris threat
Spacecraft designers and operators need to be proactive, a new organisation argues
Solar System
Interstellar Comet Borisov looks pretty normal, new observations suggest
These results are based of observations made in September 2019 using telescopes in Spain and Hawaii
FutureTech
Future Tech: Obliterating space junk with a laser cannon
The Russian space agency has previously announced plans to turn a three-metre optical telescope into a debris destroyer
Solar System
What did the Sun look like when it was born?
The Sun is 4.6 billion years old, but what did it look like in its early years?
Space Exploration
Boeing aims to launch unpiloted Starliner test flight to space station in December
Liftoff is targeted for 17 December 2019
Deep Space
A churning ‘molten blob’ of planet may be easier to find. Here’s why
Molten planets could hold clues as to how a planet eventually becomes habitable, much like Earth
Space Exploration
SpaceX could launch NASA astronauts into space in early 2020
Crew Dragon is nearly ready to go
Space Exploration
NASA wants to encourage private space stations
commercial companies could build their own space stations and utilise the unique environment of low-Earth orbit
Astronomy
Do the Southern Hemisphere constellations move into the Northern Hemisphere?
The shift between the two hemispheres caused by a wobble on the Earth
Solar System
20 new moons found around Saturn, snagging satellite record from Jupiter
Saturn now has 82 known satellites
Deep Space
Event Horizon Telescope snags new funding to capture first movie of a black hole
The first black hole image, announced in April 2019, received a sublime reception and everyone wants more
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: Edwin Hubble
How one of the world’s greatest astronomers shaped our understanding of the universe
Space Exploration
Blue Origin probably won’t launch people to space this year
2020 is a more likely target