Scientists have pulled a 6-millionyear-old chunk of ice ...

FROZEN PLANET

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

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

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

As an astronomer, I collect stars. There are several hundred billion of them in our Galaxy, the Milky Way, so it’s important to find a way to categorise them. While others might rank their stars by co