Mercury is shrinking

WORLD SPACE WEEK SPECIAL

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

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.

It’s difficult to fully grasp the enormity and extremity of Jupiter. The planet – a striped behemoth of swirling gas with around 100 moons, one of which is larger than Mercury – dominates the Solar Sy

An astrophysicist has made a daring proposal to send ...