Astronauts travelling to the moon and Mars risk dying from superbugs
15 January 2019
Just trace amounts of antibiotics in a spacecraft could be enough to let bacteria evolve deadly resistance on long space journeys
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First moon plants sprout in China's Chang'e 4 biosphere experiment
15 January 2019
China's space agency has released images of cotton plants sprouting inside the Chang'e 4 moon lander's mini biosphere, the first plant to germinate on another world
Weird star system has double binary stars and wonky planetary nursery
14 January 2019
A planet-forming disc of dust and gas is orbiting a pair of binary stars at an odd angle, and a second set of binary stars circle the whole system to keep it in line
A black hole the size of Jupiter is just wandering around the galaxy
14 January 2019
Black holes are usually the mass of one star or the mass of millions, but we may have found one wandering through our galaxy that’s right in the middle
Astronomers have seen dying stars slowly crystallise and turn solid
9 January 2019
Data from the Gaia satellite has revealed that the oldest stars in the Milky Way are crystallising as they cool down, a process that will take billions of years
