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.

I will survive: Giant exoplanet intact after star's death © NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center

I will survive Giant exoplanet intact after star's death

NASA’s interstellar mixtape: The art and music on the Voyager Golden Record © NASA/JPL-Caltech

NASA’s interstellar mixtape The art and music on the Voyager Golden Record

Turning the Red Planet green: How we'll grow crops on the Mars © Getty Images

Turning the Red Planet green How we'll grow crops on Mars

Did we find signs of alien life in the clouds of Venus? Here’s what the experts say © JAXA / ISAS / Akatsuki Project Team

Did we find signs of alien life in the clouds of Venus? Here’s what the experts say

Life on Mars: The story of meteorite ALH84001 © Getty Images

Life on Mars The story of meteorite ALH84001

Possible signs of alien life detected in Venus’s atmosphere © ESO / M. Kornmesser / L. Calçada & NASA / JPL / Caltech

Possible signs of alien life detected in Venus’s atmosphere

Everything you need to know about space travel (almost) © Getty Images

Everything you need to know about space travel (almost)

Shoebox-sized satellites built in the UK to be launched this month © ESA

Shoebox-sized satellites built in the UK to be launched this month

No, an asteroid probably won’t smash into Earth the day before the US elections, and here’s why © Getty / Mark Wilson

Reality Check No, an asteroid probably won’t smash into Earth the day before the US elections, and here’s why

Evolution of stars: The diagram that changed the Universe © Getty Images

Evolution of stars The diagram that changed the Universe

Andromeda galaxy has a humongous halo of gas © NASA, ESA, and E. Wheatley (STScI)

Andromeda galaxy has a humongous halo of gas

Oxygen from the Earth may be rusting the Moon's surface © Getty Images

Oxygen from the Earth may be rusting the Moon’s surface

Gravitational wave detectors capture their most massive black hole merger to date © Getty Images

Gravitational wave detectors capture their most massive black hole merger to date

Conspiracies and FBI secrets: Why we love UFOs © Getty Images

Conspiracies and FBI secrets Why we love UFOs

Can life exist around a black hole? © Magic Torch

Can life exist around a black hole?