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Rogue Planets are Born in Young Star Clusters

Rogue planetary-mass objects, also known as free-floating planets (FFPs) drift t...

How Brine Shrimp Adapted to Mars-like Conditions

The effects of Climate Change on Earth’s living systems have led to a shift in b...

A New Way to Measure Where the Milky Way’s Dark Matter Is

Our Milky Way Galaxy is rich in dark matter. The problem is, we can’t see where ...

Could Neutrinos Tell Us About the Inside of the Sun?

Neutrinos generated through solar fusion reactions travel effortlessly through t...

A Giant Ribbon Can Pull Payloads Along

Innovation is a history of someone trying to build a better mouse trap – or at l...

Photonic Lightsails are our Best Shot at Reaching Anoth...

Chemical rockets are loud, noisy and can only get us so far. If we want to reach...

DARPA Wants to Build Structures in Orbit, Without Needi...

Any satellite sent to space must be able to deal with the battle with Earth’s gr...

Lucy Sees its Next Target: Asteroid Donaldjohanson

NASA’s asteroid-studying spacecraft Lucy captured an image of its next flyby tar...

Mars’s Northern Ice Cap is Surprisingly Young

If you’ve ever looked at Mars through a telescope, you probably noticed its two ...

The Solar System is Taking a Fascinating Journey Throug...

Our Solar System is in motion and cruises at about 200 kilometres per second rel...

Is T Coronae Borealis About to Light Up?

Late is better than never for the ‘Blaze Star’ T Coronae Borealis. It was on tra...

Perseverance Takes A Second Look At Some Ancient Rocks

A planet’s history is told in its ancient rock. Earth’s oldest rocks are in the ...

Rover Finds the Shoreline of an Ancient Beach on Mars

Data from the Chinese rover Zhurong is adding to the pile of evidence for oceans...

As Expected, the Threat from 2024 YR4 has Essentially D...

New information is pushing Asteroid 2024 YR4 off of our front pages. Initial est...

So This is How You Get Magnetars

Magnetars are a type of neutron star with the most powerful magnetic fields in t...

A New Explanation for Why Mars is Red

Well that’s ruined all my lectures! I’ve spent years talking about space and a g...

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