Sophie Allan at the National Space Centre looks at whether astronauts can land on the surface of comets – our Solar System’s travelling space snowballs
Space Exploration
Space Exploration
Solar System
Why do some meteorites create such huge craters?
How do space rocks make such large dents in celestial bodies?
Deep Space
What makes hypervelocity stars move so fast?
We take a look at what causes these stars to speed across the universe
Solar System
VIDEO: Watch a space rock smash into the Moon at 56000 mph
The object was the size of a small boulder and may be part of a meteor swarm that also flew past Earth
Deep Space
How do we find exoplanets using their star’s speed?
It’s a way of finding distant worlds, so how does it work?
Astronomy
What does it mean when we say a telescope is ‘fast’ in astrophotography?
Josh Barker from the National Space Centre answers this question for us
Space Exploration
What is the fastest spacecraft of all time?
What’s the quickest vehicle humans have ever built?
Deep Space
Could the universe actually be a multiverse?
Could there be many different universes, rather than just one?