The unsung hero who built NASA into the world’s greatest space agency.
Do asteroids have metallic cores, like planets?
What are these space rocks made of?
Ice-spewing volcanoes gave dwarf planet its shape
Cryovolcanism has erupted throughout the history of Ceres, but such continuous activity has not had the same extensive impact on the dwarf planet’s surface as standard volcanism on Earth
New release: ESA completes Rosetta spacecraft’s image archive
The last installment includes the iconic images of finding lander Philae and the orbiter’s final descent to Comet 67P’s surface
Why doesn’t our Solar System have a hot Jupiter?
We find out why one of these exotic planets can’t be found in our Solar System
Comet 67P could be younger than first thought
Computer simulations, combined with data from the Rosetta spacecraft, demonstrate that the comet could have been created after the formation of our Solar System
Astronomers find never-before-seen regions of star formation in our galaxy
A research team has discovered new evidence of stars forming in the Milky Way
Universe found to be turning a shade of green
Astronomers have found that the earliest galaxies have been turning an unusual colour
Astronomers solve mystery of super-faint galaxies
The galactic objects are distributed over an area just as large as the Milky Way
Astronomers could finally know why the Moon has a weird orbit
Our natural satellite’s orbit has a surprisingly large tilt
Spotted! New worlds thriving in deadly star cluster
Data from NASA’s troubled Kepler Space Telescope has revealed more evidence that planets can survive in chaotic and hostile environments thanks to its discovery of two new worlds sneaking across their stars in a star cluster.
Herschel watches over cradle of youngest stars ever discovered
Wrapped up in a blanket of gas and dust, a nursery of the youngest stars ever seen have been uncovered by the Herschel Space Telescope.
Five amazing facts about asteroids
Find out what makes these space-faring rocks so interesting.