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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
KILLER UNIVERSE
RELATIVELY SAFE IN OUR PROTECTIVE BUBBLE, SOME FORCES COULD END LIFE ON EARTH FOREVER. IS THE COSMOS OUT TO GET US?
HOW MANY STARS ARE THERE IN THE UNIVERSE?
WITH A FLEET OF: MISSIONS SCOURING THE COSMOS, WILL IT EVER BE POSSIBLE TO COME TO AN ESTIMATE?
PLANET PROFILE: URANUS
The ice giant that's shrouded in mystery has fascinated explorers for decades
HOW DID EARTH GET ITS WATER?
Moon rocks suggest that the water might have been here all along
FEDOR ŠIMKOVIC: BILLIONS OF THEM PASS-THROUGH US EVERY SECOND
The nuclear physicist and ESET Science Award laureate reveals what tantalising information neutrinos can tell us about the cosmos
GREATEST SPACE MYSTERIES
THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE, ACCORDING TO ASTROPHYSICISTS, PLANETARY SCIENTISTS AND ASTRONOMERS
DISTANT TARGET ANALYSIS
When it comes to protecting Earth from impacts, it's crucial to know what asteroids are made of. NASA is working on a device to find out
DID MARS' DEEP INTERIOR CAUSE A LOSS OF ITS ATMOSPHERE?
A new study gives insight into how the Red Planet's magnetic field faded away
CANON 10x42L IS WP BINOCULAR
An outstanding choice for super-steady stargazing thanks to fabulous image stabilisation, a waterproof design and large objective lenses
PENTAGON LAUNCHES NEW UFO OFFICE
A new office in the Pentagon will investigate sightings of unidentified flying objects – but longtime extraterrestrial enthusiasts are sceptical