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Test your brain on these mind-bending scientific riddles

10 December 2025

A bizarre Christmas dinner invitation, some mysterious carol singers and even a spot of charades. Can you solve all 12 of our unique festive riddles?

6 of the most fascinating moments in the life of our solar system

13 August 2025

Travel through time to witness some of the most remarkable episodes in our solar system's history, uncovering its ancient origins and glimpsing the destiny that awaits it in the distant future

2FYMTPP Pacific Ring of Fire, illustration

Exoplanet plate tectonics: A new frontier in the hunt for alien life

2 December 2024

Plate tectonics seems to be crucial for life on Earth, but we’ve never confirmed that it happens on other worlds - that may be about to change

Why you should feel comforted, not scared, by the vastness of space

26 June 2024

Some people find the scale of the universe existentially frightening, but here's why you should take it as a source of comfort

Is an old NASA probe about to redraw the frontier of the solar system?

19 June 2024

The New Horizons mission to Pluto, now zooming out of the Kuiper belt, has made a discovery that could upend what we know about where the solar system ends

Artist's impression of a planet around a red giant star

Strange alien worlds suggest Earth could survive the death of the sun

12 December 2023

We thought there was no chance our world could survive the fiery death of the sun in another 5 billion years. Now sightings of strange "orphan planets" might force us to rewrite the story

FG10H1 JUPITER: EUROPA, 1979. /nJupiter's moon, Europa. Photographed by Voyager 2, 1979.

How excited should we be by signs of life spotted on alien worlds?

21 November 2023

We keep spotting molecular “biosignatures” in the atmospheres of planets beyond Earth, but it isn't clear if any of them can provide definitive evidence that we’re not alone

Seven wonders of the Milky Way: An astronomer’s guide to the galaxy

16 October 2023

Join us on an exhilarating tour of the Milky Way’s most spectacular sights – from a monstrous black hole and a river of dark matter to a diamond planet, primordial stars and a cosmic hall of mirrors

Homo floresiensis skull. Mould made from fragments of the skull of Homo floresiensis in Liang Bua cave, Flores, Indonesia. This newly discovered hominid species was found in Liang Bua cave in 2003. It was very small, measuring just over a metre tall, and is thought to be a descendant of Homo erectus that underwent island dwarfism - a process where isolated species that lack predators and are constrained by limited resources evolve to become smaller. It is thought to have become extinct around 12,000 years ago and therefore co-existed with modern humans (Homo sapiens).

The untold story of the curiously controversial Homo floresiensis dig

30 August 2023

The discovery of Homo floresiensis revolutionised the study of human evolution, but it was rocked by accusations of theft. Twenty years on, here's the full story behind the episode

Your essential guide to the many breathtaking wonders of the universe

22 April 2023

An abridged inventory of everything there is in the universe – from rogue planets and exomoons to supernovae, supermassive black holes and the cosmic web.