Finding treasure among cosmic debris

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

On 19 October vet Andrew Melville-Smith was driving near the Spencer Gulf in South Australia in his new Tesla Model Y when there was a deafening explosion and he and his passengers were showered with

Within just a few weeks, I had nearly been wee’d on by a naked mole-rat, waited for five hours for a few horses to poo and smelt the sulphurous pong of some seafloor sludge collected from the depths o

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

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