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Space

More than 100 moons were discovered in our own solar system in 2025

Astronomers discovered a new moon of Uranus and hundreds of moons around Saturn over the past year, and there may be many more yet to be found

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Space

The best space pictures of 2025, from supernovae to moon landings

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MENAN, ID - AUGUST 21: Locals and travelers from around the world gather on Menan Butte to watch the eclipse on August 21, 2017 in Menan, Idaho. Millions of people have flocked to areas of the U.S. that are in the

Space

The stargazing events to look forward to in 2026

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New Scientists inside a science base in the Moon conduct a variety of humorous experiments. We see a cat chasing after a giant laser beam; a scientist being eaten by a venus fly trap, a star falling through a Christmas tree as a scientist tries and fails to put it on top, a scientist going to a 'moonshine' bar, robots attending a seminar, a scientist trapping a human brain in a forcefield, and scientists stepping through portals. In the sky above the spaceship, Santa is being abducted by aliens.

Physics

Inside the wild experiments physicists would do with zero limits

Features

Space

Planned satellite launches could ruin Hubble Space Telescope images

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Physics

We might have just seen the first hints of dark matter

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Space

Huge cloud of plasma belched out by star 130 light years away

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Space

Galaxies fling out matter much more violently than we thought

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Space

Exceptional star is the most pristine object known in the universe

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Space

Astronomers captured an incredible view of M87’s black hole jet

The black hole at the centre of a galaxy more than 50 million light years away is spewing out a jet of extremely hot plasma – though we have studied it for a century, we are only now seeing it in great detail

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Space

We finally found the hot wind coming out of our black hole

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Space

How faster-than-light explosions could reveal the universe’s secrets

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Space

Possible galaxy spotted by JWST could be the earliest we've ever seen

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Space

Ceres may have been habitable at just half a billion years old

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