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February 8, 2026, 01:41 PM - 6 min read
WOH G64 is special as it is transforming on a human time scale that is usually not the case when scientists observe stars. Is this star offering scientists an opportunity not to be missed to witness the final death throes of massive stars?
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February 5, 2026, 01:20 PM - 6 min read
Planets larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune are the most common type of known exoplanet. It was for one of these planets, K2-18b, that a bold claim of a detection of a biosignature was made in 2025.
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January 29, 2026, 04:33 PM - 6 min read
A runaway black hole of a million or billion solar masses will create huge disruptions to the stars and gas around it as it travels through a galaxy.
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January 27, 2026, 06:21 PM - 4 min read
Dark matter exerts gravity, just like ordinary matter, and can hold together galaxies, which the map reaffirms with a new level of clarity
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December 8, 2025, 09:23 PM - 7 min read
The debris will cause problems for all space launch agencies and private companies, as there is a limit to our ground-based tracking and warning abilities. This makes addressing the global governance of space critical.
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November 5, 2025, 04:37 PM - 7 min read
ISRO’s journey so far has been nothing short of extraordinary. What began as an ambitious initiative by pioneers like Vikram Sarabhai and Satish Dhawan has transformed into a globally respected space programme.
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May 21, 2025, 02:10 PM - 6 min read
Light is electromagnetic radiation: basically, an electric wave and a magnetic wave coupled together and travelling through space-time. It has no mass. That point is critical because the mass of an object, whether a speck of dust or a spaceship, limits the top speed it can travel through space.
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May 8, 2025, 04:30 PM - 7 min read
Throughout time, cultures around the world have used the stars to help make sense of the world, to understand where we come from and determine our place in the cosmos.
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March 16, 2025, 02:57 PM - 9 min read
Elsewhere in the Solar System, Earth has one moon, Mars has two, Jupiter has 95, Uranus has 28 and Neptune has 16, for a total of 142 moons. We only need to discover ten more moons around Saturn to give it double the number of all the other planets combined.
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March 4, 2025, 02:04 PM - 8 min read
The newest generation of radio telescopes – including the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) and MeerKAT, a telescope in South Africa – is revealing incredibly faint cosmic objects, never before seen.
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December 25, 2024, 04:07 PM - 7 min read
The telescope took 30 years to build, but in three short years of operation, JWST has already revolutionised our view of the cosmos.
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October 27, 2024, 04:07 PM - 6 min read
Astronomers have just found complex carbon molecules in space.
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