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  • 'Man of Tomorrow': Release date, plot, cast & everything we know about the 'Superman' sequel
    12 November 2026
    James Gunn's new DC universe might be done, but the follow-up to 2025's Superman is still on the way.
  • This supernova impostor baffled astronomers for 15 years — until they found a hidden black hole feeding on an unstable star
    12 November 2026
    A hidden black hole or neutron star companion to an unstable massive star is causing the system to erupt in light that mimics a supernova explosion.
  • On this day in space! Nov. 12, 2014: European Philae probe lands on Comet 67P, bounced twice and then got lost for nearly 2 years
    12 November 2026
    On Nov. 12, 2014, a European spacecraft named Philae landed on Comet 67P, then bounced twice and got lost. Here's why it mattered.
  • SpaceX's Starship megarocket will launch to orbit on Nov. 13. Will you be able to spot it in the night sky?
    12 November 2026
    "It should be very bright, considerably brighter than the Starlink satellites due to its size."
  • 'Warhammer Survivors' is the perfect gateway into the 40K universe
    12 November 2026
    This Vampire Survivors spin-off has a lot of love for the famous grimdark sci-fi universe, but without the intimidatingly dense lore and complex systems.
  • Hera closes in on the asteroid DART impacted
    09 November 2026
    The European Space Agency (ESA)’s Hera spacecraft has returned its first close-up view of the Didymos asteroid system, marking the beginning of an ‘asteroid autopsy’ to discover what NASA’s DART impact really did to the asteroid moon Dimorphos in 2022.
  • Happy New Year, Mars! The Red Planet is turning 39
    29 September 2026
    On 30 September the Red Planet officially begins Mars Year 39. Which is quite an achievement for a world that is actually more than 4.5 billion years old.
  • 3I/ATLAS was born in the deep freeze
    08 September 2026
    Another piece of evidence suggests that this visitor formed in the bitterly cold outer reaches of a distant planetary system.
  • Roman Space Telescope launches on mission to survey the Universe
    30 August 2026
    NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has begun its journey into space, starting a mission that will survey the Universe on an unprecedented scale in search of clues to dark energy, dark matter and worlds beyond our Solar System.
  • JWST’s ‘impossible’ early galaxies may be even more massive than we thought
    24 August 2026
    Faint, low-mass stars could be hiding much of the mass in distant galaxies, making the surprisingly large galaxies discovered by JWST in the early Universe even harder to explain.
  • How to observe the 12 August 2026 solar eclipse
    07 August 2026
    On the evening of 12 August 2026, the Moon will pass between Earth and the Sun, producing a striking solar eclipse. Find out how, when and where to observe it safely.

Current visual surface of the Sun by SDO - Courtesy of NASA/SDO and the AIA, EVE, and HMI science teams.

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