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May 2025

  • Eta Aquariid meteor shower<br>EDITORS NOTE: Digital composite of 50 photographs taken over a period of 25 minutes. File photo dated 13/08/17 of meteors and star trails during the Perseid meteor shower seen from near Hawes in the Yorkshire Dales National Park. Skygazers can look forward to seeing several shooting stars on Wednesday night, as the Earth passes through the dust left over from Halley's Comet. The Eta Aquariid meteor shower is expected to peak on the night of May 5, with up to 50 meteors per hour, and will be visible until the early morning of May 6. Issue date: Monday May 3, 2021. PA Photo. See PA story SCIENCE EtaAquariids. Photo credit should read: Danny Lawson/PA Wire

    What is the Eta Aquariids meteor shower? And where and when can I see it in Australia?

    This display caused by Earth passing through debris from Halley’s Comet will be most visible on Wednesday – but only if you’re up before dawn
  • The SpaceX facility in Boca Chica, Texas

    Elon Musk’s company town: SpaceX employees vote to create ‘Starbase’

    Residents – most of them SpaceX workers – in remote Texas community approve plan to create new city

    • Tech oligarchs are gambling our future on a fantasy

      Adam Becker

    • Soviet-era spacecraft expected to plunge uncontrolled to Earth next week

    • Weatherwatch
      Dying satellites can drive climate change and ozone depletion, study finds

April 2025

  • a rocket taking off

    Amazon takes on Musk’s Starlink with launch of first internet satellites

  • A close up image of an astronaut and helmet in outer space. 3D illustration.<br>W66XN6 A close up image of an astronaut and helmet in outer space. 3D illustration.

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Sea bass in space: why fish farms on the moon may be closer than you think

  • Josef Aschbacher

    Europe must boost space investment to secure autonomy from US, says ESA boss

  • The planet Mars

    The Guardian view on owning the heavens: the perils of letting capitalism colonise the cosmos

  • Breakthrough
    How space exploration can improve life on Earth

    Leigh Phillips

  • Russian satellite at centre of nuclear weapons allegations is spinning out of control, analysts say

  • Science Weekly
    Evidence of alien life, a clue about the rise of bowel cancer, and a new colour? – podcast

  • Is there really life on planet K2-18b? We can’t rule it out, but some key questions must be answered

    Nathalie Cabrol

  • Starwatch
    Starwatch: Lyrid meteor showers to grace skies with annual stellar show

  • Blue Origin’s all-female spaceflight brought down to earth

  • Nasa’s oldest astronaut celebrates 70th birthday while hurtling back to Earth – video

  • Nasa’s oldest astronaut celebrates 70th birthday with return to Earth

  • ‘It blew us away’: how an asteroid may have delivered the vital ingredients for life on Earth

  • Are we alone? New discovery raises hopes of finding alien life

  • Guardian Opinion cartoon
    Rebecca Hendin on life outside our solar system – cartoon

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