Chip off the old moon?

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

The comet dubbed 3I/ATLAS, a rare extrasolar intruder, continues to barrel through the Solar System, attracting interest and speculation from astronomers and space scientists worldwide. Harvard astron

We humans are always wondering whether we’re alone in the Universe. But what if we are one of a long line of species that were around long before our planet even existed? This intriguing idea, that li

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

One of the best ways to study the Universe is to inspect actual materials from our celestial neighbours. Some naturally fall to Earth as meteorites, but these are few and far between, limited in their

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