Space

Wanted dead or alive: 'Monster star' vanishes without a trace © L Calçada/ESO/PA

Wanted dead or alive: ‘Monster star’ vanishes without a trace

Space balloon to ferry passengers into the stratosphere © Space Perspective

Space balloon to ferry passengers into the stratosphere

Comet 67P/C-G, known as the “rubber duck” taken by Rosetta’s NavCam © ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM

Comets and asteroids 5 things you (probably) didn't know

Artist’s impression of the multiplanetary system of newly discovered super-Earths orbiting nearby red dwarf Gliese 887 © Mark Garlick

Exoplanets Two "super Earths" discovered orbiting nearby star

Black holes: Flash of light seen from possible collision (An artist’s impression of a supermassive black hole and its surrounding disc of gas © Robert Hurt/Caltech/PA)

Flash of light seen from possible black hole collision

Hidden gems: 8 beautiful Hubble Space Telescope images you probably haven't seen before © NASA/Hubble Space Telescope Heritage Team

Hubble's hidden gems 8 beautiful images you probably haven't seen before

Mysterious object may be smallest black hole ever found © Alex Andrix/Virgo/EGO

Mysterious object may be smallest black hole ever found

An illustration of what a black hole with an accretion disk © Getty Images

Researchers verify ‘extremely odd’ black hole physics

Elisa Raffaella Ferrè: What happens to the brain in space? © Andrew Cotterill

Elisa Raffaella Ferrè What happens to the brain in space?

Solar Orbiter © ESA/ATG medialab/Nasa/PA

Solar Orbiter lines up historic photo in closest pass to the Sun

The hunt for exoplanets © Getty Images

What does it mean if an exoplanet is ‘habitable’?

NASA mission measures lifetime of neutrons from space © NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington

New data provides clues to decades-long neutron lifespan problem

What colour is space? © Getty Images

What colour is space?

SpaceX: Crew Dragon successfully docks with ISS © NASA

SpaceX Crew Dragon successfully docks with ISS

Move over, Mars: why we should look further afield for future human colonies © Getty Images

Move over, Mars: why we should look further afield for future human colonies