In the new BBC series Solar System, physicist Dr Brian Cox explores acid rain ... “An educated guess is that there might be no other civilisation like this perhaps in the galaxy or at least for many ...

Watch the full episode: <a href=" are incredibly powerful. You can launch yourself into orbit, fly to the Moon and, soon enough, travel to Mars. But to go beyond our Solar System, you're going to need ...

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This brings us to eROSITA, the Max Planck Institute of Extraterrestrial Physics' powerful space-based X-ray telescope. Led by astrophysicist Michael Yeung of the Institute, a team of researchers has ...

Hot spots and tunnels to neighboring "superbubbles" seem to have been created by supernovas and infant star outbursts.

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In an amazing recovery, Voyager 1 phoned home using its backup radio for the first time since 1981. The interstellar … ...

After 47 years and 15 billion miles, the Plasma Science Experiment aboard NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft has been turned off.

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Space is teeming with objects that, from the right perspective, might resemble things we're familiar with. This visual ...

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