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In 1979, Voyager 1 flew past Jupiter and photographed an active volcano erupting on Io, the first time volcanic activity had ever been observed on a world other than Earth, spotted by a navigation engineer checking the probe's position
2+ day, 5+ hour ago (148+ words) Published June 17, 2026 She was not looking for a volcano. She was looking at the stars behind Io to fix the position of the probe. The plume was in the way. When the team went back through the images Voyager had…...
A volcano in Ecuador called Chimborazo sits closer to outer space than Mount Everest does, not because it is taller, but because the Earth bulges at the equator and Everest, further from that bulge, is actually deeper inside the planet.
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The James Webb Space Telescope may have seen the chemical fingerprint of a molecule linked to marine life on Earth in the atmosphere of K2-18b, 124 light-years away. But the signal is still tentative: it could be dimethyl sulfide, a related sulfur compound, or something else entirely, and scientists have not yet ruled out non-biological explanations.
3+ day, 5+ hour ago (408+ words) The James Webb Space Telescope may have picked up the faint chemical signature of a molecule that, on Earth, is made almost entirely by marine life. Published June 16, 2026 Both of those conditions are in doubt. The firmer part of the…...
The next great space race may not be to plant flags, but to bring home the first untouched samples from Mars, Phobos, and ancient asteroids.
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The Andromeda galaxy is the most distant thing you can see with the naked eye, and the light reaching your eyes from it tonight left some 2. 5 million years ago, long before our own species existed.
1+ week, 3+ day ago (327+ words) On a clear, dark night in the Northern Hemisphere's autumn, you can find the Andromeda galaxy without any equipment, a faint smudge of light overhead. Published June 9, 2026 Start with what is solid, because the basic facts are striking enough without…...
The International Space Station circles the planet so fast that the crew watch the sun rise and set sixteen times in a single day, a new dawn roughly every ninety minutes
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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
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Almost everyone assumes Venus is our nearest neighbour, but averaged across its orbit the planet closest to Earth is actually Mercury
2+ week, 2+ day ago (524+ words) Most people would say Venus is Earth's nearest planetary neighbour. Averaged across its orbit, though, the planet that stays closest to Earth is Mercury. Published June 3, 2026 Most people would say Venus is Earth's nearest planetary neighbour. Averaged across its orbit,…...
When Rosetta sniffed the gas around Comet 67 P, it found a cloud that would have smelled of rotten eggs, ammonia and bitter almonds " and hidden in that cosmic stink were some of the chemical ingredients that may have helped life begin on Earth
2+ week, 3+ day ago (610+ words) Between 2014 and 2016, the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft flew alongside Comet 67 P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko and analysed the gas streaming off it. Published June 2, 2026 Both halves of that are true. Both are also easy to oversell. The comet would smell foul if…...
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