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A full moon rises over Missouri S&T’s Stonehenge. Credit: Michael Pierce/Missouri S&T Almost five years ago, much of the world went quiet …

Back in the 60’s and 70’s it was all about the Moon. The Apollo program took human beings to the Moon for …

Gas is the stuff of star formation, and most galaxies have enough gas in their budget to form some stars. However, the …

NASA’s Curiosity Rover has been exploring Mars since 2012 and, more recently has found evidence of ice-free ancient ponds and lakes on …

The ISS’s orbit is slowly decaying. While it might seem a permanent fixture in the sky, the orbiting space laboratory is only …

There’s a Universe full of black holes out there, spinning merrily away—some fast, others more slowly. A recent survey of supermassive black …

What came first, galaxies or planets? The answer has always been galaxies, but new research is changing that idea. Could habitable planets …

Two prominent mounds, rising hundreds of metres above the surrounding lowlands, display bright regions rich in clay minerals. Credit: ESA/TGO/CaSSIS, NASA/JPL/MSSS/The Murray …

The Andromeda galaxy is our closest galactic neighbour, barring dwarf galaxies that are gravitationally bound to the Milky Way. When conditions are …

The newly discovered giant radio galaxy “Inkathazo.” The glowing plasma jets, as seen by the MeerKAT telescope, are shown in red and …