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27 July 2026

United Arab Emirates successfully sends its first mission toward Mars

20 July 2020 Astronomy Now

Riding a Japanese rocket, the Arab world’s first interplanetary probe departed planet Earth on Sunday to begin a seven-month journey to Mars on a dual mission of scientific exploration and proving the mettle of the UAE’s growing space programme.

Solar Probe finds small flares – ‘campfires’ – that may help heat the corona

16 July 2020 Astronomy Now

The first images from the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft provide spectacular close-range views of the sun.

Astronomers catch the afterglow of a short gamma ray burst

14 July 2020 Astronomy Now

Astronomers catch the faint afterglow of an extremely remote short gamma ray burst, raising new questions about stellar evolution.

Innovative Japanese telescope spots red dwarf superflare in Leo

14 July 2020 Astronomy Now

Japanese telescope spots a dozen flares on a red dwarf star in Leo, including a powerful superflare.

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.

Giant star spots, not dust, likely culprit in dimming of Betelgeuse

29 June 2020 Astronomy Now

The pronounced dimming of the red giant Betelgeuse likely was caused by huge star spots, not by intervening dust, researchers say.