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The IXPE mission

Space

NASA is launching X-ray telescope to study the science of black holes

Newborn stars, hidden behind thick dust, are revealed in this image of a section of the so-called Christmas Tree Cluster from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The newly revealed infant stars appear as pink and red specks toward the center and appear to have formed in regularly spaced intervals along linear structures in a configuration that resembles the spokes of a wheel or the pattern of a snowflake. Hence, astronomers have nicknamed this the "Snowflake Cluster."

Space

Sun-like stars may go through brighter phases as they grow up

Meteor shower

Space

Arid meteor shower makes new appearance in southern hemisphere skies

Artist?s impression of the BepiColombo spacecraft at Mercury. The mission comprises ESA?s Mercury Planetary Orbiter (foreground) and JAXA?s Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (background). The image of Mercury was taken by NASA?s Messenger spacecraft.

Space

The BepiColombo spacecraft is about to make its first Mercury fly-by

venus

Space

Comet鈥檚 dust trail could rain down on Venus this December

telescope

Space

World鈥檚 first commercial deep-space communications antenna opens in UK

Solar sails could help spacecraft get up to speed

Space

Solar sail spacecraft could be used to intercept interstellar objects

drone in desert

Technology

Meteorite-hunting drones could help find freshly fallen space rocks

Space

NASA mission takes first close-up images of Ganymede in two decades

stars

Space

Star cluster lurking in the shadows may help explain galactic mystery

Space

Meteorite recovered in the UK after spectacular fireball in the sky

jupiter

Space

Juno spacecraft spots meteor fireball lighting up Jupiter鈥檚 skies