Astronomy news
The latest astronomy and space news, including updates from the professional observatories and spacecraft exploring the cosmos.
This telescope just levelled up, and will soon start hunting ancient stars that exist only in theory
Eye On The Sky | Watch NASA's incredible 10-year time lapse of the Sun
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory has produced a time lapse of the Sun revealing how it's changed over the past decade.
Mushrooms on Mars? NASA scientist says we can grow astronaut homes using this unusual method
Mycelium architecture is the construction of buildings using fungi. Could mushrooms be used to build a base for humans on Mars?
Masterclass: Capturing Jupiter on camera
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Hubble sees a dead star eating a Pluto-like object. What scientists found next surprised them
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Near the black hole at our Galaxy's centre, there are things that even the Webb Telescope can't see
How to see comet C/2025 A6 (LEMMON) this autumn
Comet 3I/ATLAS in pictures. These are all the images of the interstellar visitor captured so far
Very Large Telescope images show interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS's movement across the night sky
Earth has an invisible halo around it that nearly reaches the Moon. This NASA mission is about to photograph it
Space and astronomy news in brief
Brief, 1-minute reads giving you the latest, quick news in astronomy, space science and spaceflight
