Beyond pluto

How our knowledge of these worlds beyond the Solar System has exploded in the last three decades

WORLD SPACE WEEK SPECIAL

New Horizons was the first mission sent to explore Pluto, conducting a fly-by in July 2015. It was then redirected for a close pass of a much smaller Kuiper Belt object, Arrokoth, in January 2019. Tod

WORLD SPACE WEEK SPECIAL

This October marks 50 years since a heavily shielded spacecraft, the Soviet Union’s Venera 9, parachuted into the atmosphere of Venus. Then, having landed, it did something extraordinary: it beamed ba

A round-up of the strangest science stories from around the world.