Outer Space

The space race is heating up, but many legal issues are still open to debate.

Analyzing moon samples from the 1980s with a new laser technique shows we were wrong about the moon’s magnetic field.

With information garnered from marsquakes, researchers have created the first complete image of the interior structure of Mars.

Astronomers with the EMU Project have released a spooky image of “dancing ghosts” emanating from a pair of distant radio galaxies.

A metallic star is hurtling out of the Milky Way, propelled by a supernova explosion triggered after it ate its partner star as a white dwarf.

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb’s new Galileo Project will hunt for alien technology using proven scientific methods and equipment.

A unique baby exoplanet surrounded by a disc of gas and dust could unravel some of the mystery surrounding planet and moon formation.

Using gravitational waves, astronomers have observed collisions between black holes and neutron stars for the first time.

Astronomers have created the first ever 3D map of the heliosphere, using satellite data to reveal the part of the universe influenced by our sun’s solar wind.

The biggest survey of stellar nurseries to date, PHANGS-ALMA, charts more than 100,000 star formation regions across our corner of the universe.