New images shed light on mercury’s north pole

Ten years ago, Pluto emerged from the gloom at the Solar System’s ragged edge – and a new world came in from the cold. Five billion kilometres (3 billion miles) from Earth, on 14 July 2015, NASA’s pia

Pack your spacesuit and get ready to tick off the must-see sights of the Red Planet

The Universe is a big and complex beast, and doesn’t always behave in the way we might expect. So it’s not surprising that there are many misconceptions and misunderstandings about space. Some common

Two contrasting visions of humanity’s future in space

New model suggests Hawking radiation is speeding cosmic decay Scientists have long predicted that the Universe’s lifetime is effectively forever – specifically, 101100 years. But now scientists from R

We leave La Serena at dusk, heading east towards the stars. The 90-minute drive winds through the Elqui Valley, lush green with vineyards and home to skies so dark that international observatories on