One of the best ways to study the Universe is to inspect actual materials from our celestial neighbours. Some naturally fall to Earth as meteorites, but these are few and far between, limited in their

Astronomers are now regularly detecting planets thousands of light years from Earth – but have we missed one in our own Solar System?

Although it’s by no means certain, scientists are slowly accumulating evidence that life once existed on the Red Planet

Within the border between 700km Mare Tranquillitatis and 550km Mare Fecunditatis, lies a young, 56km-wide crater called Taruntius. Positioned just 5.5° north of the Moon’s equator and well away from t

The comet dubbed 3I/ATLAS, a rare extrasolar intruder, continues to barrel through the Solar System, attracting interest and speculation from astronomers and space scientists worldwide. Harvard astron

Scientists have pulled a 6-millionyear-old chunk of ice ...