55+ min ago   (1007+ words) These extraordinary images from orbit reveal our planet, and the cosmos beyond, from a perspective few humans ever experience For more than two decades, astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) have enjoyed one of the most extraordinary views imaginable…...

6+ hour, 46+ min ago   (610+ words) Yeast and gelatine could be used to create a sticky building material like concrete for constructing human habitats on Mars. How can frozen fruit help us build human habitats on Mars? Maybe not directly, but frozen fruit has sparked a…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (585+ words) The Star-Spangled Republic argues America's history can be told through the story of its astronomy Why does the American flag contain stars? Why do we call actors and sportspeople ‘stars’? Eran Shalev argues the answers lie in what he calls…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (338+ words) The European Space Agency released a video showing BepiColombo's view as it travelled across the Solar System After nearly eight years navigating the inner Solar System, the BepiColombo mission has released incredible footage showing the spacecraft's voyage through the inner…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (1892+ words) Interview with astronomer Cyrielle Opitom who co-led a study of comet 3I/ATLAS using the Very Large Telescope Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is one of the biggest stories in space science in recent years. From the moment of its discovery in July…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (742+ words) A review of Scott Solomon's book 'Becoming Martian' and a Q&A with the author Becoming Martian is an inspiring deep dive into how humans might live, thrive and conceive future generations on Mars. But it also explores how those…...

5+ day, 4+ hour ago   (461+ words) Planetary defence scientists caught an asteroid smashing into Earth off the coast of Australia this week – and only had a 6-hour warning that it would impact. On Sunday, September 6, 2026, automated tracking telescopes at the Mount Lemmon Observatory in Arizona, USA picked…...

5+ day, 22+ hour ago   (308+ words) On September 1, 2026, NASA astronaut Jessica Meir and European Space Agency astronaut Sophie Adenot stepped out of the Quest Joint Airlock to perform the sixth all-female spacewalk in the history of human spaceflight. Orbiting 400km (250 miles) above Earth and travelling at 17,200mph (27,600 kph),…...

6+ day, 3+ hour ago   (317+ words) Study examines whether microbes might survive the journey between Earth and Venus A study suggests that microscopic life blasted off Earth by asteroid impacts could have reached Venus’s atmosphere over billions of years – raising the possibility that any life in…...