What’s Feeding Our Supermassive Black Hole?
Astronomers have identified the likely source of gas that flows into the maw of the Milky Way’s central black hole, Sagittarius A*.
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Inspector Smile, chapter 3: the countdown begins
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Inspector Smile, chapter 3: the countdown begins
Preparing Smile for space
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Before Smile can begin studying how Earth responds to the streams of particles and bursts of radiation from the Sun, the spacecraft had to complete an extraordinary journey…
This Week’s Sky at a Glance, May 15 – 24
The Moon, Venus, and Jupiter — the three brightest celestial objects after the Sun — will form up beautifully in twilight this Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.
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How Did This Peculiar Planet Pair Form?
A planetary odd couple — a mini-Neptune and a hot Jupiter — probably formed much farther away from their star before migrating closer in.
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Webb Telescope Reveals Brown Dwarfs Masquerading as Early Galaxies
Two objects that appeared to be galaxies residing in a universe about 150 million years old turn out to be brown dwarfs in the Milky Way.
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Moon and Planets to Gather in Twilight Spectacle on May 18–20
Watch the crescent Moon dance with the planets when it returns next week.
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Waterworn chaos on Mars
This month, ESA’s Mars Express takes us to Shalbatana Vallis: a fascinating martian valley surrounded by signs of water, lava, craters and chaos.
How to follow the Smile launch live
ESA will be broadcasting live as the European-Chinese Smile mission launches at 04:52 BST/05:52 CEST (00:52 local time) on 19 May 2026.Smile will launch on a European Vega-C rocket from Europe’s…
Smile’s journey from launch to orbit
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Our next space science mission is about to begin its space adventure.After more than 10 years of designing, developing, building and testing, Smile is now ready for…