Inside the sky at night

Space scientist Dame Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock is sure there is alien life out there – and she wants a chance to explore it

Although it’s by no means certain, scientists are slowly accumulating evidence that life once existed on the Red Planet

Projecting our consciousness into other bodies and walking on alien worlds might not be such a far-flung concept

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

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

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