Space

Our place in the Universe is but the tiniest speck on the map of all known matter. We're out there, floating around in the big, wide mystery that is space.

On average, how many planets are in orbit around each star? © Getty Images

On average, how many planets are in orbit around each star?

Star Trek Picard premiere: solving plot holes, supernovae and our Sun’s fate © Getty Images

Star Trek Picard premiere: solving plot holes, supernovae and our Sun’s fate

Computer simulation of planets forming in a protoplanetary disc around a red dwarf star © University of Central Lancashire

Protoplanetary discs swirling around new stars offer clue to ‘fast and furious’ gas giant mystery

8 of the wildest ideas in science to blow your mind © Scott Balmer

Everyday science

8 of the wildest ideas in science that will blow your mind

Peter van de Kamp: the astronomer who was wrong in all the right ways © Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Peter van de Kamp The astronomer who was wrong in all the right ways

Race to Venus: What we'll discover on Earth's toxic twin ©

Race to Venus What we'll discover on Earth's toxic twin

Potential second exoplanet discovered orbiting closest star to the Sun © Lorenzo Santinelli/Science Advances

Potential second exoplanet discovered orbiting closest star to the Sun

Mysterious objects discovered orbiting our supermassive black hole (Orbits of the G objects at the centre of our galaxy, with the supermassive black hole indicated with a white cross © Anna Ciurlo/Tuan Do/UCLA Galactic Center Group)

Mysterious objects discovered orbiting our supermassive black hole

Phosphorus, a key ingredient of life, could have been brought to Earth on a comet © Getty Images

Phosphorus, a key ingredient of life, could have been brought to Earth on a comet

Star visible to naked eye reveals history of Milky Way Galaxy © NASA

Star visible to naked eye reveals history of Milky Way Galaxy

Major Tim Peake plants trees grown from space-faring seeds © ProfImages/PA

Major Tim Peake plants trees grown from space-faring seeds

If you had a strong enough magnet, could you pull something magnetic out of a black hole? © Getty Images

If you had a strong enough magnet, could you pull something magnetic out of a black hole?

Wild ideas in science: We've already found life on Mars © Scott Balmer

Wild ideas in science We've already found life on Mars

Wild ideas: Dark matter might be under our feet © Scott Balmer

Wild ideas in science Dark matter might be under our feet

Kathryn D. Sullivan: What is it really like to walk in space? © NASA

Kathryn D Sullivan What is it really like to walk in space?