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A galaxy from the early universe has three black holes inside it
JWST found three supermassive black holes in one early galaxy, two of them close enough to merge. It may explain how they got so big so fast.
SpaceJWST discovers a 'black hole star' from the dawn of the universe
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope found an object from 660 million years after the Big Bang that looks like a star but is powered by a ...
SpaceTotal solar eclipse 2026: Up to 96% of the sun vanishes over the UK today
Europe's first total solar eclipse since 1999 crosses Greenland, Iceland, and Spain today, with the UK seeing up to 96% coverage this evening.
SpaceThe Perseid meteor shower peaks tonight under the darkest sky in years
The Perseid meteor shower peaks overnight August 12-13 with up to 100 meteors per hour and zero moonlight, the best conditions since 2018.
SpaceTomorrow's total solar eclipse is the first for mainland Europe since 1999
A total solar eclipse crosses Greenland, Iceland, and northern Spain on August 12, with totality lasting up to 110 seconds at sunset.
SpaceA meteorite punched through a New Jersey roof. It carried chemistry older than Earth.
Scientists confirmed a meteorite that crashed into a New Jersey home contains amino acids and organic compounds from 4.5 billion years ago.
SpaceHow to watch the Perseid meteor shower 2026: peak night, times and kit
The Perseid meteor shower 2026 peaks overnight on 13 August under a new moon. When to look, where to stand, and the simple kit that helps you see ...
SpaceSpaceX successfully tests Starship's reusable heat shield for long-duration reentry
One of the least glamorous but most technically demanding challenges in reusable rocketry is the heat shield.
SpaceTotal solar eclipse on 12 August 2026: where to watch and how to do it safely
The total solar eclipse on 12 August 2026 crosses Iceland and northern Spain. Where to stand, how long totality lasts, and how to watch the Sun ...
SpaceSpaceX's Starship Flight Nine raised the bar. Flight Ten needs to clear it.
SpaceX's Starship development programme has been moving faster than almost any rocket programme in history, and the tempo only seems to be increasing.
SpaceVenus is not dead: New evidence it is still geologically active
A new ETH Zurich study finds Venus rift valleys may still be geologically active, widening a few centimetres a year, fresh signs the dead planet ...
SpaceSpaceX's Starship Flight 9 stuck the landing and here is why the details matter
SpaceX has successfully landed both stages of Starship on its ninth integrated flight test, and if you have been watching this programme closely, you ...
SpaceNVIDIA's wildfire satellites show what targeted space tech looks like in practice
Three new satellites are now in orbit specifically to help fight wildfires, and they are doing something that general-purpose Earth observation ...
SpaceDark matter might come in two flavours, not one
A new theoretical model argues dark matter is at least two particles, not one, that collide with each other and could explain diffuse dwarf galaxies ...
SpaceDark matter May come in two particle types, not one
A new model says dark matter could be two kinds of particle that slowly drift apart inside galaxies, and it may explain several stubborn cosmic ...
SpaceIndia's wildfire satellites show what targeted space tech can do
Three new satellites have launched with a single job: detecting wildfires faster than any ground-based system can.
SpaceStarship's 13th flight aborted itself, and that's the point of testing
Starship Flight 13 aborted seconds before liftoff on 16 July after four Super Heavy engines failed to ignite. SpaceX is targeting a retry on 23 July.
SpaceWe detected an atmosphere on a rocky planet in the habitable zone
An atmosphere has been confirmed on a small rocky planet in its star's habitable zone, read from starlight filtering through it as the planet crossed ...
SpaceA quantum computer just solved a problem fusion power has been stuck on
IBM, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Cleveland Clinic used a 156-qubit quantum computer to model fusion fuel chemistry for the first time, tackling ...
SpaceIndia's first private rocket just made it to orbit
Something significant happened in the skies over India this week, and it deserves more attention than it's getting.
SpaceJAXA's Hayabusa2 spacecraft technically finished its primary job years ago.
JAXA's Hayabusa2 spacecraft, which already delivered a sample of asteroid Ryugu to Earth, completed a flyby of near-Earth asteroid Torifune this ...
SpaceAn Earth-sized world sits in its star's habitable zone, 25 light-years away
A paper published on 1 July 2026 confirmed GJ 3378b, a planet roughly twice Earth's diameter, orbiting inside the habitable zone of its host star, a ...
SpaceOn 10 July 2026, China's new Long March 10B rocket lifted off and, a few minutes later, did something no Chinese rocket had done before: it flew its first.
China's Long March 10B caught its own booster on a floating net during its maiden flight on 10 July, becoming only the second country to recover an ...
Space70 countries have now signed the Artemis Accords
On 17 July 2026, Mauritius became the 70th country to sign the Artemis Accords, NASA's framework for how nations should behave in space ...
SpaceA chirping signal caught a magnetar being born
A chirping signal from a distant supernova has been traced to a magnetar being born, tying the brightest stellar explosions to the most magnetic ...