A Martian meteorite picked up in Africa came from one of the longest-lived volcanic...
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03 February 2017
16 November 2018
A galaxy in the early universe feeds off its smaller neighbours
26 October 2018
If we can't see them, how do we know they're there?
18 October 2018
Four gas giants form from the dust of a junior star...
05 October 2018
With NASA turning 60, Professor Andrew Coates of University College London, spoke to Sam Brown about what's next...
15 December 2017
How the building blocks of life might have formed
21 November 2017
New results shed light on excess positrons.
16 November 2017
Space scientists have confirmed the discovery of an Earth-sized planet orbiting a cool, calm star about 11 light years...
14 September 2017
After 13 years in orbit about Saturn, and making some of the most important discoveries in our Solar System, the...
08 September 2017
Scientists rewrite the rules of Jupiter’s auroras to explain the latest data from NASA's Juno Mission.
28 July 2017
Scientists report the first conclusive detection of vinyl cyanide, a molecule that could form cell-membrane like...
06 April 2017
An atmosphere around an Earth-sized planet has been detected for the first time by UK scientists.
03 February 2017
A Martian meteorite picked up in Africa came from one of the longest-lived volcanic centres in the solar system,...
07 November 2016
A new theory on the Moon's formation has been proposed by scientists and it involves a big crash and a very fast...
02 September 2016
The dwarf planet Ceres spills its secrets with a series of six studies published today in the journal Science.
20 May 2016
Mars was once home to enormous tidal waves, new evidence suggests.
03 March 2016
The first step towards a space-based gravitational wave telescope has been tested successfully by the European Space...
15 January 2016
One of the biggest astronomical explosions ever seen has been spotted in a galaxy far, far away.
13 November 2015
The early Earth was awash with water, new research has shown.
10 September 2015
Impatient physicists in Durham are floating a huge balloon- mounted telescope out of the Earth's atmosphere in...
03 July 2015
Pits dotted across the surface of comet 67P-Churyumov-Gerasimenko point to a hollow interior, according to new data...
19 June 2015
As big as a golf ball seen from 10 million km away, scientists have weighed the smallest planet yet discovered orbiting...
16 June 2015
The Philae lander, deployed onto the surface of comet 67-P-Churyumov-Gerasimenko in 2014, has begun to to send back...
18 May 2015
The Soviets were the first to send a man into space, so why are so many Russian spacecraft failing since?
07 May 2015
A 'super-Earth' water planet could actually be volcanic, changing our understanding of volcanism and plate...