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Saturn now has over 100 known moons - more than any other planet

Astronomers are still discovering new natural satellites of Saturn and Jupiter, with the latest update seeing Saturn claim the crown for the solar system's most moons

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2GYKRJN The waxing crescent Moon near the stars Castor and Pollux in Gemini, with Mars below, as the last of the winter stars set into the western twilight on

Space

How to spot Mars travelling through Gemini this week

Regulars

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Space

What was the universe's first second like? These particles can tell us

Features

Shooting stars and Starlink stellites leaving streaks in photographs of the night sky

Space

SpaceX's efforts to make satellites less bright aren't working well

Analysis

Lyrid meteor shower

Space

How to watch the Lyrids meteor shower peak this weekend

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Distant world breaks record for heaviest element on an exoplanet

Space

Distant world breaks record for heaviest element on an exoplanet

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Space

Tonight is your best chance to see Mercury in the night sky

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A composite image of the Crab Nebula features X-rays (blue and white), optical data (purple), and infrared data (pink)

Space

X-ray map of the Crab nebula reveals strange pockets of turbulence

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FGGJAF M44 - Praesepe also known as the Beehive Cluster - an open star cluster in the constellation of Cancer

Space

How to spot the Beehive cluster in the constellation of Cancer

Regulars

GRB 221009A surrounded by dust rings

Space

The most powerful space explosion ever seen keeps baffling astronomers

A gamma ray burst observed in 2022 was brighter than any explosion ever spotted before, and follow-up observations are threatening to break our understanding of how these blasts work

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Space

How to see the moon, Venus, Jupiter and Mars line up tonight

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Space

Spring equinox 2023: Why day and night aren't actually equal in length

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Humans

Anaximander review: Did Anaximander create science, asks Carlo Rovelli

Culture

Space

Galaxies’ missing matter may be found – but now there’s too much of it

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