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Curiosity kicks off summer road trip up Mount Sharp

6 July 2020 Astronomy Now

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has started a summer road trip, skirting dangerous sand as it heads for its next target.

Quantum jolts measured at macro scales in gravity wave detector

6 July 2020 Astronomy Now

Researchers measure the unimaginably small jostling caused by quantum fluctuations at human scales.

Now you see it, now you don’t; a massive star disappears

2 July 2020 Astronomy Now

Astronomers ponder the fate of a massive star in a remote dwarf galaxy that disappeared without a trace.

Launch of NASA’s next Mars rover delayed to 30 July

1 July 2020 Astronomy Now

Launch of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has been delayed to 30 July at the earliest after a series of processing snags.

Most massive black hole yet discovered redefines ‘gargantuan’

1 July 2020 Astronomy Now

Astronomers find a supermassive black hole 8,000 times more massive than the one at the heart of the Milky Way.

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