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space
Its eight-year voyage to the giant planet begins
“We think we’re seeing a wake behind the black hole where the gas cools & is able to form stars. So we’re looking at star formation trailing the black hole”
Scientists collated archival observations of Saturn to discover that the planet’s rings are heating its upper atmosphere, an unknown phenomenon until now
The Astrolab FLEX can transport cargo, equipment and people
Artemis II is intended to be the first step towards lunar landings which will occur beyond 2024
In the end, only four of its six attempts ended with satellites in orbit
The ultramassive black hole, one of just four ever observed, is more than 30 billion times the mass of the Sun
The tiny glass spherules, collected in lunar soil samples and brought to Earth by China's Chang'e-5 mission in December 2020
The craft completed its two-hour journey to Earth without a crew and landed on the Kazakh steppe today