Two contrasting visions of humanity’s future in space

It was 15 years ago this month, on 13 June 2010, that the world watched as a beleaguered traveller finally arrived home, after a long and perilous journey back to land. The trouble began in 2003, as A

New data suggests that dark energy’s pulling power is changing Dark energy’s pull could be weakening over time, according to new results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collaborat

Where did life on Earth begin? That sounds like a relatively straightforward question. Surely life on Earth began… well, on Earth, right? We know this planet had the right conditions for life to arise

In early April, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope completed its third observing programme, a nine-month-long roster of research proposed by astronomers around the world. Among the many groundbreaking

In a paper published in the journal Nature on 12 February, researchers from the snappily named Cubic Kilometre Neutrino Telescope (KM3NeT) reported the detection of an unprecedentedly energetic neutri