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Don't wait for the Hunter's Moon – catch the Moon tonight and you'll see it chase Saturn across the sky

See the Hunter's Moon chase Saturn across the sky on the nights of 23–2426. Beautiful dusk and dawn pairings of planet and Moon.
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NASA wants to put a nuclear reactor on the Moon. This US scientist says it could be a very bad idea

Astrophysicist Dr Ethan R Siegel on the practicalities of a nuclear base on the Moon and why astronomers might be right to ...
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Does the Universe have an edge?

It’s one of the most perplexing questions in cosmology: does our Universe have an edge? And does such a question even make sense? If you keep travelling through space in an imaginary faster-than-light ...
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There’s something wrong with our understanding of the Universe and how much it's expanded since the Big Bang

The Hubble tension is how the expansion of the Universe we see today doesn’t match what it should be from looking at the ...
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Scientists have discovered six planets in perfect balance

A rare system of six planets, all kept perfectly in balance, has been found around star HD110067, just 100 lightyears away.
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They've done it. Scientists have found a green star. Here's the science behind the new discovery and the technicolour cosmos

Astronomers have discovered that white dwarf stars can glow a variety of different colours, including the first known star that glows green.
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The next planet alignment is coming. How to see the Solar System worlds stretching across the sky this autumn

Mercury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter will be visible in a planet alignment, November 2026, with Saturn, Uranus and Neptune also ...
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If this type of planet existed in our Solar System, Earth would be in serious danger

Jupiter is the giant of our Solar System. It is a massive gas planet with twirling, swirling storms and a huge Great Red Spot. Its orbit lies 5.2 astronomical units (AU) from the Sun, where 1 AU is ...
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You can study black holes in your kitchen sink. This book on gravity wants to change the way we think about the most fundamental force

A guide through the mind-bending physics of gravity with science writer James Riordan and his book Crush: Close Encounters ...
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A spacecraft has detected evidence of water ice at Mars's equator

Water ice on Mars could be a valuable resource for future explorers. ESA's Mars Express mission may have found it at the ...
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Alien world captured in James Webb Space Telescope image is one of the strangest ever seen

James Webb Space Telescope image of 14 Herculis c, a planet orbiting a star 60 lightyears away that's one of the strangest ...