How to see the moon, Venus, Jupiter and Mars line up tonight

Tonight, after sunset, it will be possible to see three planets line up with the crescent…

How to see the moon, Venus, Jupiter and Mars line up in the sky

Just after sunset on 24 March, it will be possible to see three planets line up…

Fissures on ocean moons may be too rare to provide conditions for life

Fractures on the seafloors of Europa and Enceladus are thought to provide energy and nutrients crucial…

Samples from asteroid Ryugu contain one of the building blocks of RNA

The Hayabusa 2 spacecraft brought back samples from Ryugu in 2020, and an analysis of a…

Asteroids that speed up unexpectedly may be ‘dark comets’ in disguise

Some asteroids appear to accelerate in ways that can’t be accounted for by gravity, suggesting they…

Spring equinox 2023: Why day and night aren't actually equal in length

The 2023 vernal equinox in the northern hemisphere occurs on 20 March, but it’s not strictly…

Quantum effects could be key to the chemistry of life on Titan

Saturn’s moon Titan is too cold for many types of chemical reactions, but quantum tunnelling could…

NASA unveils new spacesuit for Artemis moon mission astronauts

A spacesuit designed for the Artemis moon missions is much lighter than those worn by the…

Galaxy may have eaten all its neighbours and now it's all alone

Astronomers have spotted an object with all the hallmarks of a galaxy cluster, but containing only…

JWST took a stunning picture of a star that’s about to go supernova

The James Webb Space Telescope has taken an astonishingly detailed image of a Wolf-Rayet star as…