Astronomy News

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Astronomy News

A monthly round up of the latest news in astronomy.

  1. 37

    The news - December 2021

    This month in the news: the Decadal Review, iodine propulsion and the launch of DART

  2. 36

    The news - May 2021

    This month in the news: a gravitationally lensed baby galaxy, flight on Mars, the biggest ever stellar flare, and some groundbreaking gravitational wave predictions.

  3. 35

    The news - December 2020

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  4. 34

    The news - November 2020

    This month in the news: water on the moon and getting in touch with Voyager.

  5. 33

    The news - October 2020

    This month in the news: In the news this month, water under the surface of mars and measurements of radiation on the moon.

  6. 32

    The news - September 2020

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  7. 31

    The news - August 2020

    This month in the news: the recovery from the COVID-19 epidemic, and the delay of the James Web Space Telescope.

  8. 30

    The news - May 2020

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  9. 29

    The news - Month 4 2020

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  10. 28

    The news - March 2020

    This month in the news: In the news this Month: Telescopes detect the biggest explosion since the big bang in the Ophiuchus Supercluster, the Insight lander detects 174 Marsquakes, and a second planet is found around our closest star, Proxima Centauri.

  11. 27

    The news - February 2020

    This month in the news: This month in the news: The Spitzer telescope reaches its final days, the National Science Foundation releases the most detailed images of the Sun ever, and SpaceX launches 60 new starlink satellites, with one “experimentally darkened” to lower the light pollution impact.

  12. 26

    The news - January 2020

    This month in the news: the launch and testing of the CHEOPS mission and a possibly volcanically active Venus.

  13. 25

    The news - December 2019

    This month in the news: The potential discovery of a new fundamental force carrying particle, and exploring the possibility of planets orbiting black holes.

  14. 24

    The news - November 2019

    This month in the news: a historic spacewalk, a water-carrying visitor passes by, and a new method of detecting black holes.

  15. 23

    The news - October 2019

    This month in the news: an unexpectedly large planet around a small star, a visitor from outside the solar system, a lost lunar lander, and water in the atmosphere of a super-earth.

  16. 22

    The news - September 2019

    This month in the news: Chandrayaan 2 detaches its lander, a synthetic catalogue of galaxies, and a 3D printed binocular telescope

  17. 21

    The news - August 2019

    This month in the news: Protests over the thirty metre telescope in Hawaii and the 50th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing.

  18. 20

    The news - July 2019

    This month in the news: planets in progress, mystery molecules, and oceans under ice.

  19. 19

    The news - June 2019

    This month in the news: a star from far, far away, Moon news a-plenty, and updates from the New Horizon spacecraft's flyby of MU69.

  20. 18

    The news - May 2019

    This month in the news: the updated LIGO is back, TESS found its first Earth-sized exoplanet and Israel's plan for the Beresheeft 2 lunar lander.

  21. 17

    The news - April 2019

    This month in the news: the asteroids we're visiting, the one that quietly visited us, and a new method of Martian exploration.

  22. 16

    The news - March 2019

    This month in the news: the Japanese Hayabusa 2 probe, Israel's Beresheeft lunar craft, and a fond farewell to Opportunity.

  23. 15

    The news - February 2019

    This month in the news: the United States government shutdown and Wide Field Camera 3 on the Hubble Space Telescope

  24. 14

    The news - January 2019

    This month in the news: The 50th anniversary of the Apollo 8 mission, the recent New Horizons fly-by, and the Chinese Moon landing.

  25. 13

    The news - December 2018

    This month in the news: a gamma ray burst candidate, the Sun's long-lost twin, and black holes in virtual reality.

  26. 12

    The news - November 2018

    This month in the news: the slowest-spinning pulsar ever discovered, elusive dust clouds around the Earth finally detected and the Hubble Space Telescope returns.

  27. 11

    The news - October 2018

    This month in the news: Hayabusa-2 rovers, black holes and the woman who discovered Pulsers

  28. 10

    The news - September 2018

    This month in the news: NASA goes all-American - again, the launch of the Parker solar probe, and getting in touch with Opportunity.

  29. 9

    The news - August 2018

    This month in the news: K2 is forced to hibernate, a particle appears in Antarctica and a new scale for close encounters.

  30. 8

    The news - July 2018

    This month in the news: a LIGO afterglow, complex organics from Enceladus, and Prof. Hawking takes on eternal inflation.

  31. 7

    The news - June 2018

    This month in the news: Dark galaxies discovered by astronomers, a new theory about Pluto's formation and the launch of MeerLICHT telescope in South Africa.

  32. 6

    The news - May 2018

    This month in the news: The launch of NASA's TESS observatory, a detailed view of a supermassive black hole's jets and revealing planet-forming disks around young stars.

  33. 5

    The news - April 2018

    This month in the news: ARIEL is cleared for launch, galaxies are found to be on time, and unusual elements are sighted in the Galactic bulge.

  34. 4

    The news - March 2018

    This month in the news: the most distant supernova ever discovered, the discovery of some of the most massive black holes in the universe and water content in the TRAPPIST-1 planets.

  35. 3

    The news - February 2018

    This month in the news: the extreme magneto-ionic environment associated with the source of the repeating Fast Radio Burst, exposed subsurface ice sheets in the Martian mid-latitudes, and the first definitive interstellar detection of benzonitrile.

  36. 2

    The news - January 2018

    This month in the news: The death of a space pioneer, A solar system to rival our own and The key to Jupiter's winds

  37. 1

    The news - December 2017

    This month in the news: a visiting asteroid, a new temperate world, and a lifeline for Arecibo.

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