Space

Is there life on Mars? © Getty Images

Life on Mars Does the Red Planet harbour life?

What’s the most abundant particle in the Universe? © Getty Images

What’s the most abundant particle in the Universe?

© NASA/Tony Gray

Rocket science for beginners

Life on Mars: UK researchers to study NASA mission samples © Getty Images

Life on Mars UK researchers to study NASA mission samples

SpaceX expect that one day their Starship could carry passengers to the Moon © SpaceX/Flickr

How will private space travel change the way we explore the Solar System?

Venus has at least 37 recently-active volcanoes © NASA - Jet Propulsion Laboratory / Public domain

Venus has at least 37 recently-active volcanoes

What does lunar dust smell like? © NASA

What does lunar dust smell like?

Tianwen-1: China Mars mission launches aboard Long March-5 rocket © Getty Images

Tianwen-1 China Mars mission launches aboard Long March-5 rocket

Exoplanets: First image of multi-planet system around Sun-like star © ESO/Bohn et al.

Exoplanets First image of multi-planet system around Sun-like star

UAE Mars mission ‘Hope Probe’ launches successfully © Jon Gambrell/AP

UAE Mars mission ‘Hope Probe’ launches successfully

Planet Nine could be a grapefruit-sized black hole, say astrophysicists © M Weiss

Planet Nine could be a grapefruit-sized black hole, say astrophysicists

© NASA/JPL-Caltech

Ingenuity How the Mars helicopter will fly on another planet

Solar Orbiter: 'Campfires' captured in closest ever images of Sun © ESA/ATG medialab/NASA

Solar Orbiter 'Campfires' captured in closest ever images of Sun

Neowise seen from the International Space Station © NASA

Neowise An increasingly rare opportunity to spot a comet with the naked eye

Why can’t we fly planes into space? © Getty Images

Why can’t we fly planes into space?