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Like a shiny, round ornament ready to be placed in the perfect spot on the holiday tree, supernova remnant Cassiopeia A (Cas A) gleams...

The discovery is particularly valuable.

Exciting Milestone!

Jupiter’s moon Europa is one of a handful of worlds in our Solar System that could potentially harbour conditions suitable for life. Previous research...

Each jet lasts between 20 and 100 seconds, and expels plasma at around 100 km/s.

Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have observed a large dark spot in Neptune’s atmosphere, with an unexpectedly smaller bright spot adjacent to...

The butterfly-inspired Greater Earth Lunar Power Station could beam power to lunar bases.

Cheops shows scorching exoplanet acts like a mirror.

Metal fuel for carbon-free energy on Earth… and the Moon.

A water vapour plume from Saturn’s moon Enceladus spanning more than 9600 kilometres — long enough to stretch across the Eurasian continent from Ireland...

Hubble hunts for intermediate-sized black hole close to home.

Astronomers used the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope to image the warm dust around a nearby young star, Fomalhaut, in order to study the...