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- 13 Jan 2019, 16:06 UTC A dazzling swirl of suns in the northern sky
- 11 Jan 2019, 22:14 UTC Hubble spies brightest known quasar in the early universe
- 10 Jan 2019, 20:37 UTC Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 expected back on line soon
- 10 Jan 2019, 19:13 UTC Direct evidence of white dwarf crystallisation found
- 9 Jan 2019, 17:39 UTC Habitable worlds orbiting dwarf stars may not be commonplace after all
- 9 Jan 2019, 15:54 UTC Hardware problem knocks Hubble camera off line
- 8 Jan 2019, 15:30 UTC TESS on track to revolutionise exoplanet astronomy
- 7 Jan 2019, 18:45 UTC Most detailed view yet of M33 captured in Hubble mosaic
- 7 Jan 2019, 17:09 UTC See the Moon meet the Red Planet at dusk on 12 January 2019
- 5 Jan 2019, 17:49 UTC Venus dazzles at dawn, farthest west of the Sun on 6 January 2019
- 5 Jan 2019, 17:28 UTC Caught in the act, a young star lights up surrounding nebula in veil of glory
- 4 Jan 2019, 20:06 UTC The Sun expected to ride out a looming galactic merger
- 3 Jan 2019, 01:08 UTC Ultima Thule comes into focus with latest New Horizons image
- 2 Jan 2019, 15:01 UTC Don’t miss the Quadrantid meteor shower peak on 4 January 2019
- 2 Jan 2019, 14:13 UTC OSIRIS-REx slips into record-close orbit around asteroid
- 1 Jan 2019, 22:55 UTC New Horizons scientists elated as Ultima Thule’s shape comes into view
- 1 Jan 2019, 04:47 UTC Video: Queen guitarist Brian May discusses his song celebrating Ultima Thule flyby
- 1 Jan 2019, 01:42 UTC Video: New Horizons phone home will confirm health of spacecraft
- 31 Dec 2018, 13:44 UTC Supernovae not needed for at least some heavy isotopes
- 30 Dec 2018, 14:42 UTC Live coverage: New Horizons on Ultima Thule’s doorstep
- 29 Dec 2018, 17:57 UTC New Horizons closing in for historic flyby of Ultima Thule
- 29 Dec 2018, 16:40 UTC The Helix Nebula’s amazing (and perplexing) structure
- 28 Dec 2018, 15:44 UTC See the old Moon close to Venus then Jupiter in the dawn sky
- 28 Dec 2018, 14:52 UTC Baby star throws a fit, erupts with titanic flare
- 27 Dec 2018, 15:03 UTC Viewing the moon through a VERY large telescope
- 26 Dec 2018, 18:08 UTC Saturn my lose its rings much sooner than expected
- 25 Dec 2018, 14:23 UTC Researchers find a “fossil” cloud made up of the original star stuff
- 24 Dec 2018, 06:00 UTC An iconic image of Earth, a Christmas gift from the crew of Apollo 8
- 23 Dec 2018, 12:30 UTC Ultima Thule poses an initial surprise for New Horizons team
- 22 Dec 2018, 01:10 UTC Radar images reveal near-Earth asteroid on path by Earth
- 22 Dec 2018, 00:44 UTC Faint glow generated by galaxy clusters helps map dark matter
- 21 Dec 2018, 23:21 UTC A holiday “star wreath” from the Hubble Space Telescope
- 19 Dec 2018, 06:46 UTC Astronomers find most distant solar system body to date
- 19 Dec 2018, 05:37 UTC Galaxies peek through star clouds in massive cluster
- 19 Dec 2018, 04:32 UTC New Horizons’ path to Ultima Thule clear of hazards
- 16 Dec 2018, 16:22 UTC Binary star ‘odd couple’ spotted by ALMA
- 14 Dec 2018, 16:37 UTC Filling in the blanks in Hubble’s ‘deep field’ view of cosmos
- 14 Dec 2018, 16:17 UTC Tangled magnetic fields may power jets from supermassive black holes
- 14 Dec 2018, 15:13 UTC M100 shows just how far Hubble has come since spherical aberration
- 13 Dec 2018, 19:31 UTC Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spots InSight on red planet
- 13 Dec 2018, 10:37 UTC Don’t miss the Geminid meteor shower 13–14 December 2018
- 12 Dec 2018, 17:36 UTC ALMA finds well-developed protoplanetary disks around young suns
- 12 Dec 2018, 14:57 UTC Catch close Comet 46P/Wirtanen near the Pleiades on 16 December
- 11 Dec 2018, 22:44 UTC InSight selfie reveals drab, featureless plain – just what the doctor ordered
- 11 Dec 2018, 17:56 UTC OSIRIS-REx spacecraft detects water-bearing minerals on Bennu
- 10 Dec 2018, 14:43 UTC Voyager 2 crosses solar boundary, moves into interstellar space
- 9 Dec 2018, 17:03 UTC Behaviour of fastest-growing white dwarf contradicts accepted theory
- 9 Dec 2018, 15:56 UTC Comet-like tails seen stretching away from massive young stars
- 3 Dec 2018, 15:31 UTC A dolphin-shaped cloud formation found in Jupiter’s atmosphere
- 3 Dec 2018, 15:13 UTC LIGO and VIRGO announce four new gravitational-wave detections
