Forging ahead in the new space race

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

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

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

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

Stories of wonderment and altered natural laws

The year 2025 has been a vintage one for astronomy. In January, we were hooked on reports of a building-sized asteroid on course to collide with Earth. The risk was quickly downgraded from worrying to