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MARS ROVER PICKS ITS OWN ROCK SAMPLES

Perseverance is analysing each sample's elemental composition in the ongoing search for ancient life

Chris Carberry 'We've never landed something like this on Mars'

All About Space catches up with Chris Carberry, cofounder of Explore Mars Inc, about plans to land humans on Mars' moon Phobos

EARTH TO THE MOON

Jump on board the Orion as we follow the route planned for the Artemis astronauts

LAUNCH FOR THE MOON

NASA's biggest mission in over 50 years will put boots back on the Moon and bring us one step closer to Mars

NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft takes a big step towards its 2024 launch

NASA's Europa Clipper mission is one step closer to starting its journey to Jupiter's icy moon.

Asteroid Ryugu contains material older than the planets

Ryugu contains some of the most primitive material ever studied on Earth, dating back to just 5 million years after the formation of the Solar System according to analyses of samples retrieved by Japan's Hayabusa2 mission. Because it's so old, it's made of the same material that formed the planets. "Ryugu is one of the building blocks of Earth," Hisayoshi Yurimoto, a professor at Hokkaido University in Japan, said.

SOLVING THE SUN'S BURNING MYSTERY

Scientists have spent decades trying to figure out why the Sun's atmosphere heats to extreme temperatures

COMETS FADE NEAR SATURN'S ORBIT

It's not just about the Sun's heat

OUR SATELLITE'S STARS SHED LIGHT ON GALAXY FORMATION

Mapping of the Large Magellanic Cloud reveals starry secrets

ASTEROID IMPACT UNLIKELY UNTIL 2880

Earthlings can breathe a little easier for the next 800 years

HUBBLE SPOTS ITS MOST DISTANT STAR YET

Meet Earendel, a star whose light took 12.8 billion years to reach Earth

MOON PROFILE TITAN

Saturn's biggest moon is a harsh, uninhabitable world, yet has uncanny similarities to our home planet

BEYOND THE SOLAR SYSTEM

Five of NASA's spacecraft are heading beyond our solar neighbourhood. What will they find?

CONQUERING SPACE JUNK

Should we be worried about the debris we're leaving in orbit?

ARE WE IN A CHAOTIC UNIVERSE?

Do we finally have a handle on chaos theory and how it influences the world around us?

André Kuipers "Everybody in the space world was watching"

The only Dutch astronaut to fly into space twice, Kuipers also berthed a private spacecraft with the ISS for the first time

EILEEN COLLINS: “IT WAS A DIFFICULT MISSION… WE WERE THE FIRST TO SEE MIR”

Having served as both the first female pilot and first female commander of NASA’s Space Shuttle, Eileen Collins boosted the involvement of women in space exploration to a whole new level

EUROPE'S MARS ROVER IS NOW UNLIKELY TO LAUNCH BEFORE 2026 AFTER RUSSIA'S WAR ON UKRAINE

Europe's beleaguered ExoMars rover is unlikely to launch before 2026 as the European Space Agency (ESA) ponders a path forward for the mission, including finding a new rocket, replacing Russian-built parts in cooperation with NASA or restarting its partnership with Russia in case the country's war in Ukraine ends soon.

WHERE HAVE THESE GIANT FILAMENTS COME FROM?

Mysterious magnetic filaments have been found at the heart of the Milky Way, but astronomers are still trying to discover their origin

25 UNBELIEVABLE FACTS ABOUT THE SOLAR SYSTEM

WHY OUR NEIGHBOURHOOD COULD BE THE STRANGEST PLACE IN THE COSMOS

VIRGIN ORBIT TARGETS SUMMER FOR ITS FIRST ORBITAL LAUNCH

The California-based company has three straight successful orbital missions under its belt

WELCOME TO THE STELLAR AFTERLIFE

They’re hot, they’re small and technically they’re dead. Meet the stellar remnants that have a multimillion-year-long tale to tell

BLACK HOLE BILLIARDS

Around these behemoths, smaller black holes weirdly collide

PLANET PROFILE VENUS

Earth’s sister planet is a harsh, deadly world, making it an interesting one to observe

CANON EOS 6D MARK II

Is this the perfect companion for enthusiast photographers looking to make their first break into the full-frame world?

12 ASTRONOMY TUTORIALS TO MASTER

For the very best views of the night sky

VERY LARGE TELESCOPE FINDS NEW SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLE

Scientists spotted the supermassive black hole hiding inside thick cosmic dust

THE MOON-LANDING HOAX

WHY DOES THE THEORY STILL LIVE ON? ALL ABOUT SPACE DEBUNKS A HOAX THAT RAGES AMONG CONSPIRACY THEORISTS EVER SINCE NEIL ARMSTRONG AND BUZZ ALDRIN LANDED ON THE LUNAR SURFACE

THIS MONTH'S PLANETS

A planetary parade featuring Jupiter, Venus, Mars and Saturn is something spectacular to look out for in the dawn sky

SECRETS OF BLACK HOLES

PLACES WHERE THE LAWS OF PHYSICS ARE PUSHED TO THE EXTREME