Titan’s riverbeds show a terrain built more like Mars than Earth

Saturn’s largest moon resembles Earth with its rivers and mountains, but it came by its topography…

Plasma jet engines that could take you from the ground to space

Jet engines that compress gas into a plasma have been successfully tested at ground level for…

Final demands: We explore sci-fi’s unworldly money troubles

Humanity may struggle to meet the costs of the futures featured in our round-up of recent…

Stars can start shining at a smaller mass than we thought

Objects with only 6.7 per cent of the sun’s mass can be stars, according to a…

Microbes might thrive after crash-landing on board a meteorite

Some extremophile bacteria could survive the a crash-landing of a meteorite or spacecraft, helping them travel…

Microbes might thrive after crash-landing on board a meteorite

Some extremophile bacteria could survive the a crash-landing of a meteorite or spacecraft, helping them travel…

Stars can start shining at a smaller mass than we thought

Objects with only 6.7 per cent of the sun’s mass can be stars, according to a…

Final demands: We explore sci-fi’s unworldly money troubles

Humanity may struggle to meet the costs of the futures featured in our round-up of recent…

What vision of doom made Hawking seek a faster Earth exit plan?

Stephen Hawking now says humanity must colonise other worlds within a century, rather than 1000 years,…

Earth may have been born in a huge flare-up of the young sun

A sudden brightening of the infant sun – called an FU Orionis outburst – could have…