Behold, directly overhead, a certain strange star was suddenly seen...
Amazed, and as if astonished and stupefied, I stood still.

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Japan's Resilience moon lander has crashed into the lunar surface

Fri, 06/06/2025 - 7:03am
An attempt to become the third successful private landing on the moon has ended in failure, as ispace's Resilience probe crashed due to a malfunctioning laser sensor
Categories: Astronomy

We may have discovered the first-ever stars powered by dark matter

Fri, 06/06/2025 - 6:23am
Dark stars were first suggested in 2007, but now observations with the James Webb Space Telescope hint that we may have actually found some of these unusual cosmic objects
Categories: Astronomy

The best new science fiction books of June 2025

Fri, 06/06/2025 - 5:00am
June’s sci-fi hot tips feature a sleep-killing neural chip from Laura Elliott, plus Will Carver's vision of a world where a virus makes us kinder
Categories: Astronomy