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Life on Mars?

NASA’s Perseverance rover has discovered strange leopard-spot patterns on a rock that resembles evidence of ancient microbial life. And scientists think it may be the first ‘clearest sign’ that there was once life on Mars.

That’s two in a row for Starship.

SpaceX’s Starship , the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built, aced a suborbital test flight today (Oct. 13), following up on a similar success in late August.

In early October, astronomers spotted something ancient and mysterious gliding past Mars. It was not a spacecraft or satellite, but a visitor from beyond our Solar System – an interstellar comet.

Comet 3I/ATLAS is only the third interstellar…

Holly is the Staff Writer for BBC Science Focus and looks after the popular Q&A section. She holds an MSc (distinction) in Geoscience (Space and Climate Physics) from UCL, and specialises in astronomy and earth sciences. Before joining Our Media,…

Two annual meteor streams are now active that have the potential to spawn dramatic fireballs in the weeks leading up to their November peaks.

As their names suggest, meteors from both the Southern Taurid and Northern Taurid meteor showers appear…

This amazing-looking galaxy is catalogued NGC 2775 and lies 67 million lightyears from Earth.

In fact, it’s so far away – its light has taken so long to reach us – we’re looking at the galaxy as it appeared just before the extinction of the…