Astronomers using a new technique may have not only found a super-Earth at a neighbouring star, but they may also...
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Red dwarf stars are the most common kind of star in our neighbourhood, and probably in the Milky Way. Because...
How did life arise on Earth? How did it survive the Hadean eon, a time when repeated massive impacts excavated craters thousands...
We can thank NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft for opening our eyes up to Pluto’s complexity. On 14 July 2015, the...
Does it feel like all eyes are on Venus these days? The discovery of the potential biomarker phosphine in the...
The Sun has a lot of rhythm and goes through different cycles of activity. The most well-known cycle might be...
Did comets deliver the elements essential for life on Earth? It’s looking more and more like they could have. At...
Every 200,000 to 300,000 years, Earth’s magnetic poles reverse. What was once the north pole becomes the south, and vice...
NASA’s Mariner 9 was the first spacecraft to orbit another planet when it reached Mars in late 1971. It got there only...
When China’s Chang’e-4 spacecraft landed on the lunar far side on 3 January 2019, it made history. It was the...