Habitable planets could have formed at the dawn of the universe

Illustration of an exoplanet in the early universe Darryl Fonseka/Alamy Conditions in the early universe might…

The physicist trying to build humanity’s lunar future with moon dirt

Any astronauts reaching the surface of the moon will be greeted first by a plume of…

Incredible images show the moment SpaceX’s Starship exploded

Starship flight test 7 goes through “rapid unscheduled disassembly” James Temple Photography These eerie images of…

An alien planet has winds that blow at 33,000 kilometres per hour

Artist’s visualisation of the gas giant planet WASP-127b ESO/L. Calçada A vast alien planet has blistering…

Weird icy balls in space could be a totally new kind of star

Images of the two peculiar icy objects captured by the ALMA radio telescope Takashi Shimonishi/Niigata University…

Rereading the best science fiction writers of all time: Iain M. Banks

Iain M. Banks wrote a succession of best-selling science fiction stories Joseph Branston/SFX Magazine/Future via Getty…

How to see all the solar system’s planets in the night sky at once

All the planets will appear to line up across the sky towards the end of February…

Blue Origin vs SpaceX: Who is winning the battle of the rockets?

New Glenn reached orbit (left) but Starship exploded, raining debris (right) Blue Origin; SWNS Compare these…

Extraordinary images reveal the mysteries of Mars

Dingo gap in Gale crater NASA/JPL-CALTECH/MSSS From H. G. Wells’s alien invaders in The War of…

Alien Clay extract: Read a section of Adrian Tchaikovsky’s new space-based novel

Delivering “some felons to a labour camp on a remote planet” … Alien Clay Shutterstock /…