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We can use the Sun as a giant lens, but we’d nee
From colliding galaxies to supermassive black holes, we take a look at some of the strangest sights in the universe
Astronomers love a challenge. They place their observatories on the highest mountains, in the driest deserts, on the coldest ice shelves, beneath the deepest oceans, in orbit around Earth and the Sun,
A look at some of the thousands of astronomical objects visible in Hubble’s historic photograph
New Horizons was the first mission sent to explore Pluto, conducting a fly-by in July 2015. It was then redirected for a close pass of a much smaller Kuiper Belt object, Arrokoth, in January 2019. Tod
TRAPPIST-1 is a red dwarf star located about ...
In the 17th century, the great maritime nations were vying to solve a puzzle that had confounded philosophers for many centuries: how to determine exact positions on the Earth’s surface. And in Britai
