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.

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

SETI begins search for 'technosignatures' in the hunt for alien life © Getty Images

SETI begins search for ‘technosignatures’ in the hunt for alien life

Why are celestial objects named after Greek and Roman deities? © Getty Images

Why are celestial objects named after Greek and Roman deities?

If the Sun is constantly losing mass via nuclear fusion, how come it’s not getting any smaller? © Getty Images

If the Sun is constantly losing mass via nuclear fusion, how come it’s not getting any smaller?

The Voyager mission and our Pale Blue Dot: How the most famous picture in science came to be © NASA/JPL-Caltech

The Voyager mission and our Pale Blue Dot: How the most famous picture in science came to be

Looking back at Spitzer’s greatest photos © NASA/Spitzer

Looking back at Spitzer’s greatest photos

Dr Erin Macdonald: Is there any science in Star Trek? © NBC Television (Public domain)

Dr Erin Macdonald Is there any science in Star Trek?

The quest for quantum gravity: why being wrong is essential to science © Imperial College London

The quest for quantum gravity: why being wrong is essential to science

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Solar Orbiter launch: ‘mission for a generation’ satellite on its way to the Sun

Dr Becky Smethurst: How do you actually find a black hole? (A simulation of plasma flow at the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*, which lies at the centre of the Milky Way. © J. Davelaar, M. Moscibrodzka, T. Bronzwaer & H. Falcke/Radboud Univ)

Dr Becky Smethurst How do you actually find a black hole?

To understand our Universe, look to its first moments © Getty Images

To understand our Universe, look to its first moments

© G Hüdepohl/ESO

Eye on the sky The ground-based telescopes bringing the Universe down to Earth

Into the unknown: a history of the Voyager mission © NASA/JPL

The Voyager mission Exploring the interstellar void

Pluto and beyond: New Horizons in the outer Solar System © NASA

Messages from the edge of the Solar System: What New Horizons is still revealing about Pluto and beyond

The science of Picard with Dr Erin Macdonald, Star Trek’s newest science consultant © Star Trek: Picard on Prime Video

The science of Picard with Dr Erin Macdonald, Star Trek’s newest science consultant