12 March 2026
The story of a wildflower that adapted to a severe drought in California raises hopes that evolution will come to the rescue of species hit by climate change, but there are limits
2 December 2025
We knew from prior analyses that a distant asteroid sampled in 2020 carried all but one of the molecules needed to kick-start life, and researchers have just found the missing ingredient: sugar
8 September 2025
The planet TRAPPIST-1e lies in its star’s Goldilocks zone, where water remains liquid – and an analysis suggests it might have a nitrogen-rich atmosphere like Earth’s
20 August 2025
A billion or so years into its evolution, the icy dwarf planet Ceres may have had the right conditions to sustain life, which indicates the solar system may be more habitable than we thought
8 August 2025
The James Webb Space Telescope has detected a possible gas giant the size of Saturn in the stellar system nearest our own
2 July 2025
Pictures of a distant supernova remnant show two concentric rings, providing clear evidence that exploding white dwarf stars go boom twice in the blink of an eye
22 May 2025
The unusual orbit of a possible dwarf planet, known as 2017 OF201, makes it less likely that our solar system contains a hidden ninth “Planet X”
21 May 2025
After two decades of debate, research confirms that an odd binary star system has an equally odd planetary companion
16 April 2025
It is rare to find brown dwarf stars orbiting in pairs, and this pair has an even more unusual exoplanet companion
6 January 2025
Simulations suggest Pluto and its largest moon may have gently stuck together for a few hours before Charon settled into a stable orbit around the dwarf planet
