James Webb Space Telescope reveals one of the most mysterious worlds in the universe might have a volcanic moon

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On left is an illustration of the James Webb Space Telescope. On right is an illustration of a brown dwarf with an aurora at its north pole.
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have found evidence to suggest aurora on brown dwarf W1935.

NASA GSFC/CIL/Adriana Manrique Gutierrez/NASA, ESA, CSA, and L. Hustak (STScI)

ESA orbiter discovers huge ice water deposits at Mars’ equator

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NASA hopes to get the Voyager spacecraft to their 50th anniversary with clever engineering and difficult choices

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This artist's concept shows NASA's Voyager spacecraft against a backdrop of stars.
NASA's Voyager spacecraft are the furthest human-made objects from Earth.

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Japan has landed a spacecraft on the moon for the first time, but the mission didn't go exactly according to plan

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An illustration of JAXA's SLIM spacecraft on the moon.

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First commercial crew of all-European astronauts launches to International Space Station

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This ‘digital twin’ of the planet could rival Google Earth — here’s how you can try it

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The next country to land humans on the moon in the next 10 years 'sets a precedent' for who decides the rules there: US officials

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China's Chang'e-4 lunar probe, taken by the Yutu-2 moon rover, on the far side of the moon.
China's Chang'e-4 lunar probe, taken by the Yutu-2 moon rover, on the far side of the moon.

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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope broke its own record to discover the oldest black hole yet, but it has astronomers even more confused about the beginning of the universe

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An artist's impression of a rapidly spinning supermassive black hole surrounded by a disc of super-heated material.

ESO, ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser

The doomed US moon lander is on a collision course with Earth and will be destroyed to protect other satellites

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Photo of dented Multi-Layer Insulation on board the Peregrine mission.
This image taken from Peregrine after launch showed damage to the lander's outer sheeting.

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Nasa astronomers says signal coming from outside our galaxy is 'unexpected and as yet unexplained'

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This artist's concept shows the entire sky in gamma rays with magenta circles illustrating the uncertainty in the direction from which more high-energy gamma rays than average seem to be arriving.
An artist's concept shows the entire sky in gamma rays with magenta circles illustrating the uncertainty in the direction from which more high-energy gamma rays than average seem to be arriving

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