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Cosmic antimatter could be created by annihilating WIMPs

First look at prototype telescope for the LISA gravitational-wave mission

The telescopes will be used to send and receive infrared laser beams between the three satellites in space

Objects with embedded spins could test whether quantum measurement affects gravity

Experiment could involve sending tiny diamonds through interferometers

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European Space Agency launches Hera mission to investigate asteroid ‘crash-scene’

Hera will perform a close-up examination of a 2022 impact on Dimorphos by NASA's DART mission

NASA cancels delay-hit $450m VIPER lunar prospector

The mission will now be disassembled with components used for future Moon missions

David Charbonneau and Sara Seager bag the 2024 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics

Charbonneau and Seager share $1m prize for their work characterizing the atmospheres of exoplanets

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Research headlines

Conceptual image showing a massive column called a gravity bar floating through space against a background of yellow stardust

Century-old photoelectric effect inspires a new search for quantum gravity

‘Mock asteroids’ deflected by X-rays in study that could help us protect Earth

Jonathan Tsui and Stefanie Countryman with the heart-on-a-chip

Heart-on-a-chip reveals impact of spaceflight on cardiac health

Ambipolar electric field helps shape Earth’s ionosphere

Scientists make first ever measurements of a planet-wide field that could be as fundamental as gravity and magnetic fields

Dark-matter decay could have given ancient supermassive black holes a boost

Calculations suggest photons may have warmed gas clouds

What happens when a warp drive collapses?

It emits gravitational waves, say physicists

To make Mars warmer, just add nanorods

Releasing engineered nanoparticles into the Martian atmosphere could warm the planet by over 30 K

Half-life measurement of samarium-146 could help reveal secrets of the early solar system

Isotope is extracted from an accelerator target

Liquid water could abound in Martian crust, seismic study suggests

Reservoir could harbour microbial life

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Around the world in 16 orbits: a day in the life of the International Space Station

Kate Gardner reviews the novel Orbital by Samantha Harvey

Roger Penrose: the Nobel laureate with a preference for transparencies over slideshows

Tushna Commissariat recounts a fascinating chat with Roger Penrose

Annular eclipse photograph bags Royal Observatory Greenwich prize

The image captures the progression of Baily’s beads, which are only visible when the Moon either enters or exits an eclipse

BepiColombo takes its best images yet of Mercury’s peppered landscape

The spacecraft had a clear view of Mercury’s south pole for the first time during a recent flyby

Shrinivas Kulkarni: curiosity and new technologies inspire Shaw Prize in Astronomy winner

"No shortage of phenomena to explore," says expert on variable and transient objects

LUX-ZEPLIN ‘digs deeper’ for dark-matter WIMPs

Announcement makes us pine for the Black Hills

The Wow! signal: did a telescope in Ohio receive an extraterrestrial communication in 1977?

This podcast features an astrobiologist who has identified similar radio signals

Atomic clocks on the Moon could create ‘lunar positioning system’

Lunar time standard would avoid pitfalls of time dilation

Secondary mirror of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory

Vera C Rubin Observatory’s secondary mirror successfully installed

The Vera C Rubin Observatory will conduct a decade-long survey of the southern hemisphere sky when operational in 2025

Icy exoplanet found to be potentially habitable

Researchers discover that a temperate exoplanet may have an atmosphere, could be covered in ice, and may even have an ocean of liquid water

Sun-like stars seen orbiting hidden neutron stars

Astronomers are puzzled how wide orbits survived supernovae

Artist's impression of a microlensing event caused by a black hole observed from Earth toward the Large Magellanic Cloud

Primordial black holes contain very little dark matter, say astronomers

Theories of the early universe may have to be revised following new analyses of data from the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment

Courtesy: ESA/Hubble & NASA, M Häberle (MPIA)

Speedy stars point to intermediate-mass black hole in globular cluster

Hubble observation is best evidence yet for an elusive class of black holes

Claudia de Rham: a life in gravity

Claudia de Rham on her new book The Beauty of Falling and her career in theoretical physics

How gravity falls down on falling down

Kate Gardner reviews The Beauty of Falling: a Life in Pursuit of Gravity by Claudia de Rham

An evening of landscape astrophotography

Colin White recounts a trip that took him from a Somerset hilltop to the heart of the Milky Way

Artist's impression of a black hole emitting a jet of hot gas

Scientists create space plasmas at CERN

Producing fast-moving "fireballs" in the lab could shed light on processes in extreme astrophysical emissions

Spacesuit backpack allows astronauts to drink their own urine

Researchers at Cornell University have created a prototype urine collection and filtration system

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