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After 350 years, the UK's first female Astronomer Royal has been appointed. Professor Michele Dougherty will act as an ...

Millions of kilometres from Earth, orbiting the giant Jupiter, NASA's Juno spacecraft faced a serious problem. One of its ...

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NASA engineers revived a radiation-damaged space camera on Juno using heat—just in time to capture stunning images of Jupiter ...

Look east around 4 a.m. local time, just before dawn, to see the slender form of the crescent moon climb above the horizon.

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Initially expected to last only eight orbits, JunoCam functioned normally through the spacecraft’s first 34 orbits.

NASA has successfully restored a damaged camera aboard its Juno spacecraft orbiting Jupiter. The recovery of JunoCam, a ...

Scientists have been able to recreate the extreme conditions found on icy moons in deep space - and revealed the unstable ...

Professor Michele Dougherty has been appointed as the UK's first ever female Astronomer Royal - a position which sees her as the official astronomical adviser to King Charles III.