A Place That Exists Only in Moonlight review: Sublime raid on infinity
13 February 2019
Katie Paterson's biggest art show yet gives gallery-goers a tantalising taste of space and time at a cosmic scale
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This stunning map shows why everyone is fighting over the Arctic
30 January 2019
The environmentally damaging melting of polar ice is also exposing minerals, archaeological wonders and even ice volcanoes and there's a race to get to them
Palaeontologists behaving badly, and other bitter feuds in science
18 December 2018
What killed the dinosaurs? Does string theory count as science? Is Pluto a planet? Get embroiled in five explosive debates that have put researchers at each others' throats
Super-Earth spotted hiding in plain sight around neighbouring star
21 November 2018
After years of searching, a planet several times larger than Earth has been discovered orbiting Barnard's star – the closest star to Earth after the Alpha Centauri system
Two new rogue planets that do not orbit stars have been discovered
9 November 2018
Astronmers have found two new planets that don't have stars. They are incredibly difficult to spot, but there may be more of them in the Milky Way than stars
Mystery cold spot on Jupiter's moon Europa could be 'almost anything'
3 September 2018
The first full temperature map of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa has revealed one spot that seems colder than anywhere else on the surface - but we have no clue why
Forgotten giants: Why the time is ripe to revisit Uranus and Neptune
25 July 2018
A fleeting glimpse of the ice giants 30 years ago hinted at very weird science that could tell us a lot about exoplanets. Now we have a rare chance to go back
Why weird star systems are where we'll find alien life
18 July 2018
In the hunt for life beyond Earth, we've been looking for planets and stars like our own. But that is flawed – and a new plan promises answers in our lifetimes
Passing star may have disturbed the solar system billions of years ago
18 July 2018
The outer solar system hosts a number of small bodies in mixed up orbits – and they may have been scattered there by a passing star
Trio of stars shows Einstein is still right about relativity
4 July 2018
A fundamental rule of general relativity has passed its most extreme test yet, courtesy of the movements of three distant stars
