Odd black holes smaller than protons may have once littered the cosmos

Colour-charged black holes may have formed in the early universe betibup33/Shutterstock The universe may have once…

What would a wormhole look like if we ever found one?

Could we find a wormhole?   ESO/L. Calçada The following is an extract from our monthly Launchpad…

We could detect a malfunctioning warp drive on an alien starship

A failing warp drive could release gravitational waves Everett Collection Inc / Alamy There is no…

How many moons and moonmoons could we cram into Earth’s orbit?

 Dead Planets Society is a podcast that takes outlandish ideas about how to tinker with…

The first stars in the universe could have formed surprisingly early

An image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope showing thousands of extremely distant galaxies NASA,…

The largest volcanoes on Mars have frosted tips during winter

A view of frost on Olympus Mons ESA/DLR/FU Berlin As winter mornings dawn on Mars, the…

Cosmic cloud exposed Earth to interstellar space 3 million years ago

Illustration of the protective bubble around the sun (yellow dot) and Earth (blue dot) Harvard Radcliffe…

Starliner and Starship launches propel space industry into a new era

SpaceX successfully launched its Starship rocket on the same day that Boeing’s Starliner craft made its…

Physicists want to drill a 5-kilometre-deep hole on the moon

Going deep into lunar rock could give us an opportunity to see if protons can decay…

SpaceX Starship launch: Fourth test succeeds as both stages splash into sea

Starship blasted off from Boca Chica, Texas SpaceX SpaceX’s Starship, the largest rocket ever constructed, has…