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An interstellar rescue brings the venerable
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
TRAPPIST-1 is a red dwarf star located about ...
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
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,
On 21 August, in the dead of night, a mysterious spacecraft launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The craft in question was the eerily named X-37B – an experimental and highly secretiv
A look at some of the thousands of astronomical objects visible in Hubble’s historic photograph
