Starliner and starship take next steps forward

These pictures mark a successful end to NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore’s extended stay aboard the International Space Station (ISS). After taking the first crewed test flight of the

Two contrasting visions of humanity’s future in space

It was 15 years ago this month, on 13 June 2010, that the world watched as a beleaguered traveller finally arrived home, after a long and perilous journey back to land. The trouble began in 2003, as A

The simple answer, unfortunately is that nobody knows ...

In a paper published in the journal Nature on 12 February, researchers from the snappily named Cubic Kilometre Neutrino Telescope (KM3NeT) reported the detection of an unprecedentedly energetic neutri

Where did life on Earth begin? That sounds like a relatively straightforward question. Surely life on Earth began… well, on Earth, right? We know this planet had the right conditions for life to arise