LONG AGO, A LAKE ON MARS MAY HAVE BEEN SPRAWLING WITH MICROBES

Curiosity discovered manganese oxide in bedrock in a Martian region that may have been a shoreline billions of years ago

MOON TOUR HELL

Finding this fascinating crater isnt as hard as its name suggests...

THIS MONTH'S PLANETS

Most of the planets are tricky targets this month, but our guide will help you locate them

UNIVERSE BEFORE TIME

Could the existence of a mirror-image cosmos before the Big Bang solve some of the biggest mysteries in astronomy?

CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM

Alongside Earth, our planetary neighbourhood is changing, but it’s not for the better…

Stars give tiny planets a gravitational 'squeeze' to strip away their atmospheres

A scientist has learned more about the violent processes that rip atmospheres away from planets, finding that squashing and squeezing by a parent star can contribute to this process.

The Milky Way's halo is filled with ‘magnetic doughnuts' as wide as 100,000 light years

The outer halo of the Milky Way is filled with magnetic fields that take the shape of vast doughnuts with diameters ranging from 12,000 to 100,000 light years, with the heart of our galaxy at their centre.

The Pentagon wants the commercial space reserve to support military satellites in orbit

The US Department of Defense is developing a plan to use the ever-growing American commercial space industry for national security purposes.

DOES A COSMIC 'GLITCH' IN GRAVITY CHALLENGE ALBERT EINSTEIN'S GREATEST THEORY?

Gravity changes once you reach a cosmic scale

DEEP SKY CHALLENGE : STELLAR TREASURES OF THE ARCHER AND SCORPION

Summer skies are stuffed full of amazing objects for your telescope - if you're prepared to stay up late

MYSTERIES OF THE UNIVERSE:IS THERE ANOTHER PLANET BEYOND NEPTUNE?

There are now five lines of evidence suggesting the existence of Planet Nine

THE TEN BEST IMAGES TAKEN FROM THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION

The orbiting laboratory has a unique view of Earth and its surroundings

Chris Hadfield "It feels like magic”

The first Canadian to walk in space tells us about his life in Earth orbit, his music and photography and why he broke into a space station with an army knife

PROJECT DRAGONFLY

The innovative laser sail technology that could propel us to interstellar space

STARQUAKES

STARS ARE PLAYING A COSMIC CONCERTO THAT CAN REVEAL THE DEEP SECRETS OF THEIR INTERIORS

"We knew that this would be a historic comet"

Astronomer David Levy was immortalised for his co-discovery of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 – its impact with Jupiter 29 years ago held the world in awe

CELESTRON STARSENSE EXPLORER DX 102AZ

Innovative technology provides the simplest and quickest solution yet to finding objects to observe, and this instrument will be very popular with beginners

MOON TOUR - COPERNICUS

Get up close to the ‘Monarch of the Moon’

A HUNGRY BLACK HOLE 'SWITCHES ON' AS ASTRONOMERS WATCH IN SURPRISE

J221951 is one of the most extreme examples yet

MYSTERIES OF THE UNIVERSE - WHY DOES JUPITER CHANGE COLOUR?

For years, scientists have tried to work out why Jupiter’s bands frequently move and change colour. Now they believe they’ve found the answer

MARS HELICOPTER PHONES HOME AFTER A 63-DAY SILENCE

Rugged terrain had kept Ingenuity from communicating with its robotic partner, the Perseverance rover

SIX OF THE BEST SPACE PRANKS

It turns out that the sky isn’t the limit when it comes to a good old-fashioned practical joke

CLIMATES CHANGE IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM

Alongside Earth, our planetary neighbourhood is changing. But not for the better…

TIME APPEARED TO MOVE FIVE TIMES SLOWER IN THE FIRST BILLION YEARS AFTER THE BIG BANG

Time dilation, brought about by the relativistic expansion of space, has resulted in the observed slowing of ‘clocks’ in the early universe

WHAT CAN WE DO WITH A CAPTURED ASTEROID?

Asteroids could provide us with rare resources

NEPTUNE

The isolated azure ice giant remains a relative mystery

COSMIC 'SANDWICH' THEORY COULD EXPLAIN HOW SMALLER PLANETS ARE FORMED

Sandwiched planet formation may arise as the result of gas and dust being squeezed between large planets

WILL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CHANGE ASTRONOMY?

With computers growing smarter than ever, training them how to spot and categorise astronomical objects could lead to a plethora of breakthroughs

OBJECT HOTTER THAN THE SUN FOUND ORBITING A DISTANT STAR AT BREAKNECK SPEED

A weird celestial object that’s blurring the line between planet and star has been uncovered

Neil deGrasse Tyson - "It would be cool if we were some simulation"

The host of StarTalk has become one of the world's best known astrophysicists, popularising space and science for millions