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Gravitational effects could shed more light on the Hubble tension

NASA launches crewed Artemis II mission to the Moon

Craft will conduct a flyby of the Moon before returning to Earth

Perseverance finds evidence for an ancient river delta on Mars

New analyses of the Jezero impact crater reveal signs of flowing water

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India announces three new telescopes in the Himalayan desert

Artist's impression of the NLST observatory

‘Relief’ as industrial megaproject in Chile that threatened world’s darkest skies is cancelled

ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert

European Space Agency unveils first images from Earth-observation ‘sounder’ satellite

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Could lightning occur on Mars?

Lunar magnetic field mystery may finally have an explanation

Three people standing in front of a green and grey cutaway model of the Earth's layers. Yellow lines representing magnetic fields spring out from the model Earth's poles.

Long-distance quantum sensor network advances the search for dark matter

A net made from faintly glowing filaments and bright nodes appears poised to scoop up a dark-purple region of space

Quantum memories could help make long-baseline optical astronomy a reality

Single-photon interferometry achieved over 1.5 km

Ancient reversal of Earth’s magnetic field took an extraordinarily long time

Field-flipping event 40 million years ago in the Eocene epoch lasted 70,000 years

2D materials help spacecraft electronics resist radiation damage

Transistors based on atomically thin transition-metal dichalcogenides appear particularly robust

Black hole is born with an infrared whimper

Observation sheds new light on how some massive stars fade away

Earthquake-sensing network detects space debris as it falls to Earth

Proof-of-principle experiment resolved the shock waves produced by the Shenzhou-15 module when it re-entered the atmosphere

Samples from the far side of the Moon shed light on lunar asymmetry

Unusual isotopic ratio in samples brought back by Chang'e-6 reveals clues about the early history of Earth's satellite

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Exploring the astrophysics behind Project Hail Mary

Author Andy Weir and astrophysicist Becky Smethurst unpack the physics in the new Hollywood space epic

A rubbish challenge: how do we dump space junk?

Katherine Courtney and Alice Gorman talk about the danger of space debris and what we need to do about it

An external pallet packed with old nickel-hydrogen batteries is pictured shortly after mission controllers in Houston commanded the Canadarm2 robotic arm to release it into space

Stripes of Enceladus: a jigsaw puzzle

Can you reconstruct the astrophysics image we’ve pulled apart?

Asteroid deflection: why we need to get it right the first time

Aerospace engineer Rahil Makadia on the danger of asteroid “keyholes”

Photo of Rahil Makadia at an alpine lake

Unusual astronomical event might be a ‘superkilonova’

Merger of two neutron stars in the aftermath of a supernova may have been observed for the first time, though questions remain

Three images showing in succession a massive star exploding, two neutron stars being born in the aftermath, and the neutron stars merging in a burst of red light

Interactions between dark matter and neutrinos could resolve a cosmic discrepancy

Finding challenges the standard model of cosmology

Photo of the Blanco telescope dome against a starry night sky

New cosmic map will put dark-matter theories to the test

COSMOS-Web uses JWST’s enhanced imaging capabilities

Uranus and Neptune may be more rocky than icy, say astrophysicists

Novel modelling approach suggests that the traditionally ice-rich image of these planets may be skewed

Images of Uranus, a turquoise-coloured world with a large white spot at the top, and Neptune, which is a slightly darker blue and has a smaller white spot. They're both floating against a black sky.

Cosmic time capsules: the search for pristine comets

Ancient icy wanderers like comet 3I/ATLAS, spotted in July 2025, can reveal secrets of our cosmic origins

Small white dot with a blue halo. Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS observed by the Hubble telescope

Hot ancient galaxy cluster challenges current cosmological models

Observations of the thermal energy in a baby galaxy cluster 12.4 billion light-years away suggest much more energetic early cluster growth than current theories assume

Artist’s impression of the SPT2349–56 galaxy cluster

Astronomer Daniel Jaffe named president of the Giant Magellan Telescope project

Jaffe will be aiming to secure the funding necessary to complete the $2.5bn telescope

Gravitational lensing sheds new light on Hubble constant controversy

Astronomers calculate new value for the universe's expansion

A montage of eight time-delay gravitational lens systems. There is an entire galaxy at the centre of each image, and bright points in rings around them.

Mission to Mars: from biological barriers to ethical impediments

Emma Chapman reviews Becoming Martian: How Living in Space Will Change Our Bodies and Minds by Scott Solomon

Two adults and a child wearing spacesuits on a red planet with biodomes in the background

Solar storms could be forecast by monitoring cosmic rays

Forbush decrease effect is tracked between the Sun and Earth

CERN team solves decades-old mystery of light nuclei formation

ALICE collaboration identifies three-phase process that allows particles to form despite energetically unfavourable conditions

Image showing a neutron and a delta particle emerging from a white flash. The neutron and the delta particle both contain three quarks, represented by colourful spheres. Arrows indicate that the neutron and the delta subsequently undergo a reaction that produces a deuteron (a neutron-proton pair) and a pion.

Quantum information theory sheds light on quantum gravity

Our podcast guest is Alex May of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

Motion through quantum space–time is traced by ‘q-desics’

Subtle quantum effects could be observed in how particles traverse cosmological distances

Artist's impression of how quantum deviations could affect the motion of a particle through the cosmos

Components of RNA among life’s building blocks found in NASA asteroid sample

Samples from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu found to contain molecules and compounds vital to the origin of life

Bio-essential sugars found in asteroid Bennu samples

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