Beyond pluto

From colliding galaxies to supermassive black holes, we take a look at some of the strangest sights in the universe

How our knowledge of these worlds beyond the Solar System has exploded in the last three decades

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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

This October marks 50 years since a heavily shielded spacecraft, the Soviet Union’s Venera 9, parachuted into the atmosphere of Venus. Then, having landed, it did something extraordinary: it beamed ba

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