1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (1007+ words) These extraordinary images from orbit reveal our planet, and the cosmos beyond, from a perspective few humans ever experience For more than two decades, astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) have enjoyed one of the most extraordinary views imaginable…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (610+ words) Yeast and gelatine could be used to create a sticky building material like concrete for constructing human habitats on Mars. How can frozen fruit help us build human habitats on Mars? Maybe not directly, but frozen fruit has sparked a…...

5+ day, 4+ hour ago   (338+ words) The European Space Agency released a video showing BepiColombo's view as it travelled across the Solar System After nearly eight years navigating the inner Solar System, the BepiColombo mission has released incredible footage showing the spacecraft's voyage through the inner…...

5+ day, 9+ hour ago   (1892+ words) Interview with astronomer Cyrielle Opitom who co-led a study of comet 3I/ATLAS using the Very Large Telescope Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is one of the biggest stories in space science in recent years. From the moment of its discovery in July…...

6+ day, 8+ hour ago   (1148+ words) The 'robed statue of a female figure' on Mars was spotted by the Spirit rover on the Red Planet in 2007 Of all the strange, creepy visions captured throughout humanity's exploration of the Universe, one of the most hair-raising has to…...

1+ week, 9+ hour ago   (281+ words) Chinese probe takes a picture of the ‘quasi-satellite’ Kamoʻoalewa near Earth China’s Tianwen-2 spacecraft has returned the first-ever close-range images of our planet’s ‘mini moon’ Kamoʻoalewa, after closing to within 20km (12 miles) of the space rock. Tianwen-2 was launched on 28 May…...

1+ week, 9+ hour ago   (317+ words) Study examines whether microbes might survive the journey between Earth and Venus A study suggests that microscopic life blasted off Earth by asteroid impacts could have reached Venus’s atmosphere over billions of years – raising the possibility that any life in…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (224+ words) Will a new paint job stop satellites ruining ground-based astronomy? A new study of one of the world’s darkest coatings suggests it could dramatically reduce the impact of satellites on astronomy. Researchers at the University of Surrey found that the…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (426+ words) NASA's Perseverance rover’s discovery of widespread complex carbon on Mars adds fresh clues to the hunt for past life Scientists have confirmed one of the most extensive detections yet of complex organic carbon on Mars, found in mudstones in an…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (24+ words) We’ll soon see the flash when two alien planets collide – and it'll dramatically transform our understanding of the Universe BBC Sky at Night Magazine...