Does alien life have to look like us? Or even be intelligent?

Imagined Life, a riveting update of what we know about the planets beyond our solar system,…

Saturn's moon Enceladus is having a snowball fight with other moons

Three of Saturn’s icy moons are twice as shiny as we thought they were, and it’s…

The most powerful volcano on Jupiter's moon Io is about to explode

The largest and most powerful of the 400 volcanoes on Jupiter’s moon Io erupts on a…

Black hole that 'rings' like a bell shows Einstein was right

Astronomers have looked at the way a black hole ‘rings’ like a bell to test a…

We may have spotted an interstellar comet flying towards Earth

Astronomers have found a comet that seems to have come from beyond our solar system, which…

We may have spotted an interstellar comet flying toward Earth

Astronomers have found a comet that seems to have come from beyond our solar system, which…

This watery planet is the best place to hunt life we've seen so far

We’ve spotted water vapour in the atmosphere of a distant planet twice Earth’s size. It’s probably…

There is a pair of weird, gigantic bubbles at the centre of our galaxy

There are strange bubbles of particles looming above and below the Milky Way, and they may…

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This week, see Brad Pitt in space, discover planet-friendly architecture and visit a nerve-shredding new show …

Titan’s odd-shaped lakes may have formed from underground explosions

Saturn’s moon Titan has some lakes that are strangely shaped and appear to have formed from…