How China is working to turn Saishiteng Mountain into the world’s largest astronomy base
Construction on the Tibetan plateau of some of the Earth’s most powerful optical telescopes is putting China on…
Scientists Discover Hidden Symmetry on Earth That Nobody Can Explain
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Scientists have made a huge discovery at the enormous black hole at the centre of our Galaxy. And they found something pointing right at it
Astronomers say they’ve finally seen, for the first time, evidence of a powerful wind blowing from the supermassive…
Tiny X-ray telescope could unlock the Moon’s hidden chemistry
Researchers at Tokyo Metropolitan University have used simulations to show that a small, newly developed X-ray telescope could…
Elon Musk Set to Become the First Trillionaire as SpaceX Nears Market Debut
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Battery designed for Moon missions tackles extreme temperatures
Battery manufacturing firm Solidion Technology has unveiled a new platform that it claims could support future satellites, spacecraft,…
Scientists Find Chunk of Lost Planet in Desert
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Bucking boycotts, prizewinning Israeli astrophysicist finds ‘Zen-like’ perspective in space
Astrophysicist Paz Biniamini from the Open University of Israel on Tuesday became the first scholar in the Ra’anana-based…
An AI trawled through 35 years of Hubble images and found more than 800 strange objects that had never been documented before, showing that one of astronomy’s most famous archives is still hiding discoveries in plain sight
Two researchers at the European Space Agency have run an AI tool across nearly 100 million cropped images…
Webb Weighs Most Distant Inactive Black Hole Ever Found
A supermassive black hole 6 billion times the mass of the Sun lurks in MRG-M0138, a gravitationally lensed…
Chinese black hole-hunting scientist Dai Liang quits US for Shanghai post
A physicist who was awarded a fellowship reserved for the “brightest young scientists” in the US and Canada…
Magnetic fields are invisible, but researchers have just built the most detailed photo yet showing nearly four million galaxies
I’ve long been awed by photographs of the night sky, but one of the latest images to stop…