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Finding this fascinating crater isn’t as hard as its name suggests��
Lubiniezky Type: Crater Size: 45km Longitude/latitude: 23.9° W, 17.9° S Age: Around 3.9 billion years Best time to see: Two days after first quarter (2 September and 1 October) or one day after last q
Your dusty, distant destination awaits, with unique geology that reveals billions of years of cosmic collisions
Flammarion is an inconspicuous walled plain near the centre of the Moon’s disc. On the Earth-facing side of the lunar surface, there are two great crater ‘chains’ containing three large craters. On th
Isn’t it amazing that astronomy – humanity’s oldest science – continues to generate such a delightful amount of new knowledge? Seeing as we’ve been studying the motion of the stars for a good long whi
Of the hundreds of thousands of asteroids in our solar system, it is all too feasible that one could strike Earth. If scientists discover this is likely to happen, what are our options for defending ourselves – and who will make the key decisions? Tomas Weber reports
It’s difficult to fully grasp the enormity and extremity of Jupiter. The planet – a striped behemoth of swirling gas with around 100 moons, one of which is larger than Mercury – dominates the Solar Sy