Space

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

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?

NASA planet hunter TESS finds its first habitable Earth-like world © NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA exoplanet hunter TESS finds its first habitable Earth-like world

How to see tonight's ‘Wolf moon’ lunar eclipse © Steve Parsons/PA

How to see tonight’s ‘Wolf moon’ lunar eclipse

SpaceX Starlink: The controversial satellite constellation © SpaceX/Flickr

Controversial SpaceX Starlink satellites trial dark coating