The final frontier

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

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

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

Astronomers love a challenge. They place their observatories on the highest mountains, in the driest deserts, on the coldest ice shelves, beneath the deepest oceans, in orbit around Earth and the Sun,

Did you know? The nearest black hole is ...

Planetary physicist Dr Sheila Kanani on why now is the time to spot shooting stars and a sunlit Saturn