Missing: the first stars

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

An artist’s impression of Cha 1107-7626 accreting material ...

Using Webb, researchers detected several complex carbon-based molecules ...

Amazing answers to your curious questions

You may have bought this December issue of BBC Sky at Night Magazine because you’ve been given – or you’ve treated yourself to – a new telescope for Christmas. And you may be wondering what to do with

Our understanding of the Universe has revealed that its existence, and indeed our own, relies on a particular set of rules. For example, the fundamental ‘constants of nature’, such as the charge of th