Astronomers figure out why part of the Sun moves more slowly than its interior

A long-standing solar mystery could have been solved by an international team of scientists

Solar storms stripped early Mars of ‘habitable environment’

The cause of the transition of the Martian climate from an early, warm and wet environment to the cold, arid planet it is today has been revealed

Opportunity prepares for an active winter on the Red Planet

The rover’s operators plan to use the vehicle through the upcoming Martian winter in order to conduct a survey of Marathon Valley

Starmus 2014: “I’m betting my shirt that alien life is similar to life on Earth,” says Dawkins

At the Starmus astronomy festival in Tenerife, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins tells us what we should expect alien life to look like

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