Astronomers stunned to find Saturn has 128 more moons in rare discovery
Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised ...
Space photo of the week: Hubble zooms in on the glittering galaxy next door
The Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy about 200,000 light-years from the solar system, can be seen with the naked eye ...
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Exoplanet nurseries around infant stars can be much smaller than expected: 'It is astonishing'
"As the large and bright discs are the easiest to observe, our previous view of the birth site of planets was biased." ...
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UK Space Agency’s £5m to put SuperSharp Space Systems’ Hibiscus in orbit
The £5m award comes from the UK Space Agency’s National Space Innovation Programme, designed to invest in high-potential ...
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‘Space Advertising’ Could Outshine the Stars—Unless It’s Banned First
Astronomers are racing to protect the dark skies as private companies seek to place large advertisements in Earth orbit ...
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James Webb Space Telescope captures galaxies merging
The James Webb Space Telescope is a collaborative effort between NASA, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency. Unlike the Hubble Space Telescope, which orbits around the Earth, Webb ...
Several planets found orbiting star less than 6 light-years away
Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four planets orbiting a star less than 6 light-years away with help from some of ...
JWST captures its first direct images of carbon dioxide outside solar system
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away that has long been a ...
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A tiny moon photobombs Mars as Europe’s Hera mission swoops past
As it zipped by, it took hundreds of shots of the Red Planet, as well as several snaps of Deimos, one of the two small ...
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Space photo of the week: James Webb telescope's view of the Flame Nebula is a 'quantum leap' forward for astronomers
The free-floating objects are brown dwarfs, which straddle the line between stars and planets ... Related: 42 jaw-dropping ...
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Explainer: 128 new moons for Saturn, but what even counts as a moon?
Saturn surpasses Jupiter with 128 newly discovered moons, becoming the planet with the most moons in our solar system.
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New cosmic neighbors: Four planets discovered just 6 light years away
Barnard’s Star has long been a focus of interest for people who study worlds beyond our solar system ... the new finds are small, rocky worlds, though exact compositions are hard to confirm. The angle ...