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The expense and prestige involved in sending landers and rovers
H umans love conspiracy theories. From the JFK assassination, the Illuminati and the ‘deep state’, to vaccine distrust and ‘chemtrails’, the modern world is awash with beliefs in collusion and hoaxes.
Who hasn’t watched a show like Gladiators or Total Wipeout and thought: “Yeah, I could do that”? Or even: “I bet I could do better”? In my case, that thought also extended to – wait for it – astronaut
One of the most important features of extrasolar planets is whether they have an atmosphere or not. For astrobiology in particular, small, rocky planets blanketed with an atmosphere offer the best hop
When we imagine planets, we usually picture them circling a fiery star like our Sun. But new evidence has now been found of a type of planetary system that instead forms around cold planets that float
After jetting to Namibia for a gravel race, Joe Laverick stays on for a to a tour – and finds himself in a land of perspective-shifting immensity
When comet 3I/ATLAS was discovered in July, on a one-way interstellar journey through our Solar System, Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb suggested it might be an alien spacecraft paying us a visit. Back in
