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
14 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
12 November 2018
Next to Pluto’s heart-shaped plains are strange rolling hills unlike anything we’ve seen on Earth, and they may be left over from receding ancient glaciers
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
7 November 2018
On 30 October, NASA announced that the Kepler planet-hunting spacecraft is being shut down. Over almost a decade, it changed our views on our place in the universe
2 October 2018
There is a 300-kilometre-wide ice world in the far reaches of the Solar System - and its orbit is consistent with the presence of the hypothetical Planet X
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
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
4 July 2018
A fundamental rule of general relativity has passed its most extreme test yet, courtesy of the movements of three distant stars
30 May 2018
Questions such as whether Mars ever hosted life are too big to be left to any one nation – efforts to join forces on space missions are the future
