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Balloon-borne telescope will ‘weigh’ the universe, remembering John Enderby

X-ray flares spotted from behind a black hole

Observation could lead to further insights into black-hole coronas

New evidence supports dark-spot theory for Betelgeuse’s ‘Great Dimming’

But what caused that dark spot to form in the first place?

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NASA selects two Venus missions for launch

VERITAS and DAVINCI+ will take-off between 2028 and 2030 to investigate Earth’s sister planet

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China successfully lands Zhurong rover on Mars

China becomes the second country after the US to successfully land a spacecraft on the surface of the red planet

NASA’s Ingenuity rotorcraft prepares for second Mars flight

Following a successful vertical lift-off and landing yesterday, engineers are now setting their sights on a lateral flight

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Moon-forming disc is spotted around a giant exoplanet

Photo of instruments sitting on an ice sheet with the Sun bright in a blue sky above

Solar radio waves could help monitor glacier thickness

an artist’s impression of InSight and its seismometer

NASA craft provides an insight into Mars’ interior

New images show when it comes to black holes size doesn’t matter

Using the Event Horizon Telescope, astronomers have discovered that larger supermassive black holes seem to be ‘scaled-up’ versions of their smaller counterparts

Vibrations drive X-ray flares in Jupiter’s aurora

Simultaneous observations by NASA’s Juno and ESA’s XMM Newton satellites shed light on 40-year-old mystery

Ancient star likely created from a colossal hypernova explosion

Heavy elements found in an ancient star lying on the fringes of the Milky Way were likely produced by a magneto-rotational hypernova explosion

Microlensing reveals free-floating planets alone in deep space

Astronomers find evidence for four Earth-sized planets wandering freely through space, unbound to any host star

LIGO gravitational-wave signal backs up Hawking’s area theorem

Prediction made by the late theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking 40 years ago receives observational support

Electron capture supernova spotted four decades after first predicted

Observation suggest that the Crab Nebula was created by a similar explosion

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China embarks on a decade of human space exploration

With construction of its first dedicated space station set to be complete next year, China is now firmly becoming a major space power, as Ling Xin reports

Protecting self-driving cars from cosmic rays, size limits for wind farms

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Ask me anything: Mariya Lyubenova – ‘I love the constant supply of food for thought that research offers’

Careers advice from the head of media relations at ESO, science adviser to ESO’s communication department, and editor of ESO’s journal The Messenger

Changing research field from astrophysics to neuroscience

M S Zobaer describes his unexpected journey from dusty plasmas to neuroscience

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The physics of Olympic sports, searching for continuous gravitational waves

In this podcast we try out an Olympics-inspired quiz and talk to three astrophysicists who are searching for continuous gravitational waves

Cosmic challenge: protecting supercomputers from an extraterrestrial threat

Fast neutrons from cosmic-ray showers can cause significant errors in supercomputers. Physicists hope to measure the problem and protect devices, says Rachel Brazil

Illustration of the metal-rich asteroid Psyche

Deflecting asteroids and exploring a metal world

Profiling NASA’s two upcoming asteroid missions, DART and Psyche

A photo of the Deep Space Atomic Clock payload

Trapped-ion clock passes orbital test

Compact atomic timekeeper has shown good stability since its launch in 2019

LIGO mirrors have been cooled to near their quantum ground state

Experiment opens a window on gravity’s effect on quantum objects

Galactic ‘bridges’ could be the largest rotating structures ever discovered

New research suggests that filaments of matter connecting one galaxy to another may be spinning

Black holes merging with neutron stars have been spotted by LIGO–Virgo for the first time

Two events were seen less than two weeks apart

Artificial intelligence can spot holes in the Sun’s corona

System could improve forecasts of disruptive space weather

Huge Oort Cloud object has been spotted entering the outer solar system

Comet-like object was revealed in data from the Dark Energy Survey

Alien astronomers on hundreds of nearby exoplanets could have spotted life on Earth

Music from radio stations may have already reached 29 exoplanets

Fuel flow, pressure and heat fluctuations drive combustion oscillations in rocket engines

Understanding the mechanisms that cause damaging combustion oscillations could ease the development of combustors for rocket and aircraft engines

Electrons ‘surf’ on Alfvén waves in plasma-chamber experiments

Research explains how aurora-creating particles are accelerated

Caution needed when testing Einstein’s general relativity using gravitational waves

Future signs of new physics might just be accumulated errors, physicists warn

Has Betelgeuse’s ‘Great Dimming’ finally been explained?

Cold spot and condensing gas cloud reduced light from nearby red supergiant, say astronomers

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