An upcoming book from presenter and author Dallas Campbell collects both iconic and lesser-known images of space, from ...

The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is one of the Milky Way's closest galactic neighbors—a small, gas-rich galaxy visible to the ...

Twice a year, the Sun seems to “hit the reset button” on Earth’s daylight. For a brief moment, the line between day and night looks almos ...

Over a century ago, Ernest Rutherford discovered the proton by splitting the atom in a laboratory in Manchester. Today, researchers based in Manchester have discovered a new particle that Rutherford ...

Deep in the cold darkness beyond our Solar System, Oxford-led astronomers have discovered a world that defies easy categorisation: a small, rocky worl.

Don't worry, it's not hurtling towards us.

The findings further hint that space rocks may have brought the building blocks of RNA and DNA to Earth long ago ...

Britain is preparing to cancel its contribution to one of the Large Hadron Collider's next major upgrades.

Then there’s the science. Project Hail Mary is based on Andy Weir’s ‘hard sci-fi’ book of the same name, published in 2021, six years after his earlier novel The Martian was adapted into Ridley ...

Earth-size planet (HD 137010 b) found orbiting a nearby star once a year, making it a promising target for finding life.

A close-up of the surface of asteroid Ryugu. (MASCOT/DLR/JAXA) A new analysis of samples collected from asteroid Ryugu has yielded all five canonical nucleobases that make up RNA and DNA. It's not the ...